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Alentejo

The Alentejo is a beautiful, mostly agricultural, region remarkable for its wide horizons, filled with soft hills that change color along the year, from deep brown to green with white, red and purple, to golden.
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is a city and a municipality in the district of , in the region of southern . Due to its well-preserved old town centre, still partially enclosed by medieval walls, and many monuments dating from various historical periods, including a Roman temple, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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is a city in with a population of 36,000 people. It stands on the summit of a high hill surrounded by beautiful and fertile valleys under cultivation, as the district is rich in agricultural products, mainly cereals, olive oil, and wine.

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is a city of 23,000 people in the Alentejo region of . is among the finest examples of intensive usage of the trace italienne in military architecture.

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was a Portuguese province. It was abolished with the Constitution of 1976. The area is now covered by Subregion and Alentejo Central Subregion.

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The Comunidade Intermunicipal do is an administrative division in . It was created in 2009. It is also a NUTS3 subregion of the Alentejo Region.

Alentejo

Latitude of center
38.0551° or 38° 3′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
-7.8606° or 7° 51′ 38″ west
Population
757,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1763537517
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Wiki­data ID
Q26824
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Alentejo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألينتيخو”
  • Arabic: “الينتيخو”
  • Basque: “Alentejo”
  • Belarusian: “Алентэжу”
  • Breton: “Alentejo”
  • Catalan: “Alentejo”
  • Chinese: “阿连特茹”
  • Chinese: “阿連特茹”
  • Chinese: “阿連特茹大區”
  • Czech: “Alentejo”
  • Dutch: “Alentejo”
  • Esperanto: “Alentejo”
  • Estonian: “Alentejo”
  • Finnish: “Alentejo”
  • French: “Alentejo”
  • Galician: “Alentejo”
  • Galician: “Alentexo - Alentejo”
  • Galician: “Alentexo”
  • Galician: “Entre Texo e Guadiana”
  • Georgian: “ალენტეჟუ”
  • German: “Alentejo”
  • German: “Region Alentejo”
  • Greek: “Αλεντέζου”
  • Hebrew: “אלנטיו”
  • Hungarian: “Alentejo régió”
  • Hungarian: “Alentejo”
  • Icelandic: “Alentejo”
  • Indonesian: “Alentejo”
  • Italian: “Alentejo”
  • Japanese: “アレンテージョ”
  • Japanese: “アレンテージョ地方”
  • Korean: “알렌테주 지방”
  • Lezghian: “Алентежу”
  • Lithuanian: “Alentežas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alentejo”
  • Malay: “Alentejo”
  • Mirandese: “Alanteijo”
  • Mongolian: “Алентежу”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alentejo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alentejo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alentejo”
  • Norwegian: “Alentejo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alentejo”
  • Persian: “منطقه آلنتیژو”
  • Polish: “Alentejo”
  • Portuguese: “Alentejana”
  • Portuguese: “Alentejano”
  • Portuguese: “Alentejo”
  • Portuguese: “Entre-Tejo-e-Guadiana”
  • Portuguese: “Entre-Tejo-e-Odiana”
  • Portuguese: “Região do Alentejo”
  • Romanian: “Alentejo”
  • Russian: “Алентежу”
  • Scots: “Alentejo”
  • Serbian: “Алентежо”
  • Serbian: “Алентежу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alentejo”
  • Slovak: “Alentejo”
  • Slovenian: “Alentejo”
  • Spanish: “Alemtejo”
  • Spanish: “Alentejo”
  • Spanish: “Region del Alentejo”
  • Spanish: “Región del Alentejo”
  • Spanish: “Región estadística del Alentejo”
  • Swedish: “Alentejo”
  • Turkish: “Alentejo”
  • Ukrainian: “Алентежу”
  • Urdu: “آلنتیژو علاقہ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alentejo”. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.