Iberia
Portugal
Portalegre District

Marvão

Marvão is a mountain village of 3,000 people in perched on a quartzite crag of the Serra de São Mamede.
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  • Type: Town with 203 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Marvao” and “Marvão Municipality”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of Marvão and Ponte da Portagem, Torre da Portagem e área envolvente.

Castle
Photo: Elemaki, CC BY 3.0.
The is a well-preserved medieval castle located in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Marvão, in the municipality of Marvão, district of Portalegre.

Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Public building
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a public building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santo António das Areias.

Village
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village.

Marvão

Latitude
39.3948° or 39° 23′ 41″ north
Longitude
-7.3775° or 7° 22′ 39″ west
Population
203
Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)
Open location code
8CFJ9JVC+WX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25612849
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6930631
Wiki­data ID
Q988863
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Marvão” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مارفاو”
  • Basque: “Marvao”
  • Basque: “Marvão”
  • Catalan: “Marvão”
  • Cebuano: “Marvão (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Marvão”
  • Chechen: “Марван”
  • Chinese: “Marvão”
  • Chinese: “馬爾旺”
  • Chinese: “馬爾旺村”
  • Chinese: “马尔旺”
  • Czech: “Marvão”
  • Dutch: “Marvao”
  • Dutch: “Marvão”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارفاو”
  • Esperanto: “Marvão”
  • Finnish: “Marvao”
  • Finnish: “Marvão”
  • French: “Marvão”
  • Galician: “Marvão”
  • German: “Marvão”
  • Irish: “Marvão”
  • Italian: “Marvão”
  • Japanese: “マルヴァオン”
  • Lombard: “Marvão”
  • Luxembourgish: “Marvão”
  • Malay: “Marvão”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Marvão”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marvão”
  • Polish: “Marvao”
  • Polish: “Marvão”
  • Portuguese: “Marvão”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Marvão”
  • Russian: “Марван”
  • Spanish: “Marvao”
  • Spanish: “Marvão”
  • Swedish: “Marvão”
  • Tatar: “Марван”
  • Turkish: “Marvão”
  • Ukrainian: “Марван”
  • Vietnamese: “Marvão”
  • Volapük: “Marvão”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Marvão”
  • “Marvão”

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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 “Marvão”. Photo: Stephen Colebourne, CC BY 2.0.