Aljezur
Aljezur is a city and the northernmost municipality in the district of Faro in Algarve, the southernmost region of mainland Portugal. The village is located in a natural park, the Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e da Costa Vicentina, close to the border of the Algarve with the Alentejo region.- Type: Town with 340 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Aljezur Municipality”
- Neighbors: Lagos, Monchique, Odemira, and Vila do Bispo
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pillory of Aljezur and Aljezur Táctil Museu Municipal.
Aljezur
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3152° or 37° 18′ 55″ north
Longitude
-8.8041° or 8° 48′ 15″ west
Population
340
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
Open location code
8C9H858W+39
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Aljezur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألخيزور”
- Arabic: “الجزر”
- Catalan: “Aljezur”
- Cebuano: “Aljezur (kapital sa munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Aljezur”
- Chechen: “Алжезур”
- Chinese: “Aljezur”
- Chinese: “阿尔热祖尔”
- Chinese: “阿爾熱祖爾”
- Dutch: “Aljezur (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Aljezur”
- Esperanto: “Aljezur”
- French: “Aljezur”
- French: “Château de Aljezur”
- Galician: “Aljezur”
- German: “Aljezur”
- Hebrew: “אלז’זור”
- Irish: “Aljezur”
- Italian: “Aljezur”
- Ladino: “Aljezur”
- Latvian: “Alžezūra”
- Lithuanian: “Alžezuras”
- Lombard: “Aljezur”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Aljezur”
- Malay: “Aljezur”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aljezur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aljezur”
- Norwegian: “Aljezur”
- Novial: “Aljezur”
- Polish: “Aljezur”
- Portuguese: “Algezur”
- Portuguese: “Aljezur”
- Portuguese: “Município de Aljezur”
- Russian: “Aljezur”
- Russian: “Алжезур”
- Spanish: “Aljezur”
- Tatar: “Алжезур”
- Turkish: “Aljezur”
- Ukrainian: “Алжезур”
- Vietnamese: “Aljezur”
- Volapük: “Aljezur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aljezur”
- Welsh: “Aljezur”
- “Aljezur”
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