Colares
Colares is a civil parish along the coast of the municipality of Sintra. The population in 2011 was 7,628, in an area of 33.37 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Anta de Adrenunes and Roman villa of Santo André de Almoçageme.
Anta de Adrenunes
Archaeological site
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The Anta de Adrenunes, located on top of a hill at 426 metres above sea level, in the municipality of Sintra, within Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Lisbon District, Portugal, is believed to be a Stone Age burial chamber or megalithic monument.
Roman villa of Santo André de Almoçageme
Protected area
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The Roman ruins of Santo Andre de Almoçageme is a Portuguese archaeological site located in the rural civil parish of Colares, in the municipality of Sintra.
Convent of the Capuchos
Church
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The Convent of the Friars Minor Capuchin, popularly known as the Convent of the Capuchos, but officially the Convento da Santa Cruz da Serra de Sintra, is a historical convent consisting of small quarters and public spaces located in the civil parish of São Pedro de Penaferrim, in Sintra Municipality, Portugal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cabo da Roca and Colares.
Cabo da Roca
Locality
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Sintra is a town in Greater Lisbon, Estremadura, Portugal. Its spectacular setting, 28 km from Lisbon, houses a Royal Palace, used by generations of Portuguese royalty prior to the 1910 revolution. Cabo da Roca is situated 4 km southwest of Colares.
Azóia
Hamlet
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Azóia is a village in the municipality of Sintra in the southwest of the district of Lisbon, Portugal. Azóia lies 1 km from the Cabo da Roca, the most westerly point of the European continent, which makes it the westernmost village on the European continent.
Colares
- Type: Locality with 7,750 residents
- Description: civil parish in Sintra
- Category: freguesia of Portugal
- Location: Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Colares” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كولاريس”
- Asturian: “Colares”
- Catalan: “Colares”
- Cebuano: “Colares”
- Chechen: “Колариш (Португали)”
- Chechen: “Колариш”
- Chinese: “Colares”
- Dutch: “Colares (Sintra)”
- Dutch: “Colares”
- French: “Colares”
- German: “Colares”
- Irish: “Colares”
- Italian: “Colares”
- Japanese: “コラレス”
- Kazakh: “Колареш (Португалия)”
- Kazakh: “Колареш”
- Malay: “Colares (Portugal)”
- Malay: “Colares”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Colares”
- Polish: “Colares”
- Portuguese: “Colares (Sintra)”
- Portuguese: “Colares”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Colares”
- Russian: “Колареш (Португалия)”
- Russian: “Колареш”
- Russian: “Колариш”
- Spanish: “Colares”
- Tatar: “Колариш (Португалия)”
- Tatar: “Колариш”
- Turkish: “Colares (sintra)”
- Turkish: “Colares”
- Ukrainian: “Колареш”
- Western Armenian: “Քոլարես (Սինթրա)”
- Western Armenian: “Քոլարես”
- “Colares”
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