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Castelo Branco District

Castelo Branco

Castelo Branco is a city of 56,000 people in central . All its points of interest can be visited in one day. It is also a good base for visiting the International Tagus Natural Park, the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, and Idanha-a-Nova.
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  • Type: City with 34,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Castelo Branco Municipality” and “Castelo Branco, Portugal”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Castelo Branco and Castle of Castelo Branco.

Church
Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The or Church of Saint Michael is a Roman Catholic Latin Co-cathedral and former cathedral in Castelo Branco, Portugal. It is the second official seat of the Catholic Diocese of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, as the bishopric's two-part title suggests, ranking after the Cathedral of Portalegre.

Castle
Photo: Dinah Raphael, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a medieval castle in civil parish of Castelo Branco, in the municipality of the same name, in the Centro .

Railway station
Photo: Threeohsix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Castelo Branco

Latitude
39.8266° or 39° 49′ 36″ north
Longitude
-7.4919° or 7° 29′ 31″ west
Population
34,300
Elevation
371 metres (1,217 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT CBR
Open location code
8CFJRGG5+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5414768270
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2269514
Wiki­data ID
Q373720
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Castelo Branco” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاستيلو برانكو”
  • Asturian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Basque: “Castelo Branco”
  • Belarusian: “Каштэлу-Бранку”
  • Bengali: “কাস্তেলো ব্রাঙ্কো”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাস্টেলো ব্রাঙ্কো”
  • Breton: “Castelo Branco”
  • Catalan: “Castelo Branco”
  • Cebuano: “Castelo Branco (parokya sa Distrito de Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, lat 39,82, long -7,52)”
  • Cebuano: “Castelo Branco”
  • Chechen: “Каштелу-Бранку”
  • Chinese: “Castelo Branco”
  • Chinese: “布朗库堡”
  • Chinese: “布朗庫堡”
  • Czech: “Castelo Branco”
  • Danish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Dutch: “Castelo Branco (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Castelo Branco”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاستيلو برانكو”
  • Esperanto: “Castelo Branco”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Castelo Branco”
  • Finnish: “Castelo Branco”
  • French: “Castelo Branco”
  • Galician: “Castelo Branco”
  • Georgian: “კაშტელუ-ბრანკუ”
  • German: “Castelo Branco”
  • Greek: “Καστέλο Μπράνκο”
  • Greek: “Καστέλου Μπράνκου”
  • Gujarati: “કેસ્ટેલો બ્રાન્કો”
  • Hebrew: “קשטלו ברנקו”
  • Hindi: “कैस्टेलो ब्रांको”
  • Indonesian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Irish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Italian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Japanese: “カシュテル・ブランク”
  • Japanese: “カステロ・ブランコ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಸ್ಟೆಲೊ ಬ್ರಾಂಕೊ”
  • Korean: “카스텔루브랑쿠”
  • Latin: “Albicastrum”
  • Latin: “Album Castrum”
  • Latin: “Castra Leuca”
  • Latin: “Castrum Album”
  • Latvian: “Kaštelu Branku”
  • Latvian: “Kaštēlubranku”
  • Lithuanian: “Kastelo Brankas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaštelo Brankas”
  • Lombard: “Castelo Branco”
  • Luxembourgish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Malay: “Castelo Branco”
  • Marathi: “कॅस्टेल ब्रॅंको”
  • Mazanderani: “کاستلو برانکو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Castelo Branco”
  • Mingrelian: “პაშტელუ-ბრანკუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Castelo Branco”
  • Norwegian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Persian: “کاستلو برانکو”
  • Polish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Portuguese: “Albicastrense”
  • Portuguese: “Castello Branco”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo Branco”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Castelo Branco”
  • Romanian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Russian: “Каштелу Бранку”
  • Russian: “Каштелу-Бранку”
  • Serbian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Serbian: “Kastelo Branko”
  • Serbian: “Кастело Бранко”
  • Serbian: “Каштело Бранко”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Castelo Branco”
  • Sinhala: “කස්ටෙලෝ බ්‍රන්කෝ”
  • Slovak: “Castelo Branco”
  • Spanish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Swahili: “Castelo Branco”
  • Swedish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Tamil: “காஸ்டிலோ ப்ராங்கோ”
  • Tatar: “Каштелу-Бранку”
  • Telugu: “కాస్టెలో బ్రాంకో”
  • Thai: “คาสตีโล บรองโค”
  • Turkish: “Castelo Branco”
  • Ukrainian: “Каштелу-Бранку”
  • Urdu: “کاشتیلو برانکو، پرتگال”
  • Vietnamese: “Castelo Branco, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Vietnamese: “Castelo Branco”
  • Volapük: “Castelo Branco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Castelo Branco”
  • Welsh: “Castelo Branco”
  • “Castelo Branco”

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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 “Castelo Branco”. Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.