Elvas
Elvas is a city of 23,000 people in the Alentejo region of Portugal. Elvas is among the finest examples of intensive usage of the trace italienne in military architecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 15,300 residents
- Description: municipality in Portugal
- Also known as: “Elvas, Portugal Municipality”
- Neighbors: Alandroal, Badajoz, Campo Maior, Monforte, and Vila Viçosa
Photo: Aneves, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Elvas and Nossa Senhora da Graça Fort.
Castle of Elvas
Photo: Nmmacedo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Castle of Elvas is a medieval military fortification in Portugal, in the civil parish of Alcáçova, municipality of Elvas, part of a first line of defense in the Portuguese Alentejo, in conjunction with the military forts of Ouguela, Campo Maior, Olivença and Juromenha.
Nossa Senhora da Graça Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Nossa Senhora da Graça Fort, officially Conde de Lippe Fort and known historically as La Lippe, is a fort in the village of Alcáçova, about 1 kilometre north of the town of Elvas in the Portalegre District of Portugal.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Museum
Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea is a museum.
Elvas
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Portalegre District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.8806° or 38° 52′ 50″ northLongitude
-7.1637° or 7° 9′ 49″ westPopulation
15,300Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT ELVOpen location code
8CCJVRJP+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 25612845OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Elvas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الواس”
- Aragonese: “Elvas”
- Armenian: “Էլվաշ”
- Asturian: “Elvas”
- Basque: “Elvas”
- Belarusian: “Элваш”
- Breton: “Elvas”
- Catalan: “Elvas”
- Cebuano: “Elvas”
- Chechen: “Элваш”
- Chinese: “Elvas”
- Chinese: “埃尔瓦斯的驻军边境城镇及其防御工事”
- Chinese: “埃爾瓦什”
- Croatian: “Elvas”
- Czech: “Elvas”
- Dutch: “Elvas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الواس”
- Esperanto: “Elvas”
- Finnish: “Elvas”
- French: “Elvas”
- Galician: “Elvas”
- Georgian: “ელვაში”
- German: “Befestigungsanlagen von Elvas”
- German: “Elvas”
- Hebrew: “אלוואס”
- Hebrew: “אלווש”
- Hindi: “एल्वस”
- Hungarian: “Elvas”
- Irish: “Elvas”
- Italian: “Elvas”
- Japanese: “エルヴァシュ”
- Japanese: “エルヴァス”
- Korean: “엘바스”
- Lithuanian: “Elvasas”
- Lombard: “Elvas”
- Luxembourgish: “Elvas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Elvas”
- Macedonian: “Елваш”
- Maltese: “Elvas”
- Mazanderani: “الواس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Elvas”
- Mingrelian: “ელვაში”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elvas”
- Norwegian: “Elvas”
- Novial: “Elvas”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Elvas”
- Persian: “الواس”
- Polish: “Elvas”
- Portuguese: “Elvas”
- Portuguese: “Município de Elvas”
- Romanian: “Elvas”
- Russian: “Элваш”
- Serbian: “Elvas”
- Serbian: “Елвас”
- Slovak: “Elvas”
- Spanish: “Elvas”
- Swedish: “Elvas”
- Tatar: “Элваш”
- Thai: “แอลวัช”
- Turkish: “Elvas”
- Ukrainian: “Елваш”
- Vietnamese: “Elvas”
- Volapük: “Elvas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Elvas Municipality”
- Waray (Philippines): “Elvas”
- “Elvas”
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