Monforte
Monforte is a municipality in the District of Portalegre in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,329, in an area of 420.25 km2. The present Mayor is Gonçalo Nuno Lagem, elected by the Coligação Democrática Unitária.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 1,220 residents
- Description: municipality and town of Portugal
- Also known as: “Monforte Municipality” and “Monforte, Portugal”
- Neighbors: Elvas, Estremoz, and Portalegre
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Monforte and Igreja Paroquial de Monforte.
Castle of Monforte
Castle
The Castle of Monforte is a medieval castle located in the civil parish of Monforte, in the municipality of Monforte, Portuguese district of Portalegre.
Igreja Paroquial de Monforte
Church
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Igreja Paroquial de Monforte is a church.
Rossio de Monforte’s Calvary Chapel
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Rossio de Monforte’s Calvary Chapel is a church.
Monforte
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Portalegre District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
39.0531° or 39° 3′ 11″ northLongitude
-7.4389° or 7° 26′ 20″ westPopulation
1,220Elevation
285 metres (935 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT MFTOpen location code
8CFJ3H36+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 25612847OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Monforte” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Monforte”
- Catalan: “Monforte”
- Cebuano: “Monforte (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Monforte”
- Chechen: “Монфорти”
- Chinese: “Monforte”
- Chinese: “蒙福爾特”
- Danish: “Monforte”
- Dutch: “Monforte (Portugal)”
- Dutch: “Monforte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مونفورتى”
- Esperanto: “Monforte”
- Finnish: “Monforte”
- French: “Monforte”
- Galician: “Monforte”
- German: “Monforte”
- Irish: “Monforte”
- Italian: “Monforte”
- Japanese: “モンフォルティ”
- Lombard: “Monforte (Portogall)”
- Lombard: “Monforte”
- Luxembourgish: “Monforte”
- Malay: “Perbandaran Monforte”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Monforte”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monforte”
- Polish: “Monforte”
- Portuguese: “Monforte”
- Portuguese: “Município de Monforte”
- Russian: “Монфорти”
- Spanish: “Monforte”
- Tatar: “Монфорти”
- Turkish: “Monforte”
- Ukrainian: “Монфорте”
- Vietnamese: “Monforte”
- Volapük: “Monforte”
- Waray (Philippines): “Monforte”
- “Monforte”
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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 Wikipedia page “Monforte”. Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.