São Francisco Xavier
São Francisco Xavier is a former civil parish in the city and municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It was created on February 7, 1959. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it merged with the former parish of Santa Maria de Belém, thus creating the new Belém parish.- Type: Suburb
- Description: former civil parish in Lisboa, Portugal
- Also known as: “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier” and “São Francisco Xavier, Lisbon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery of the Hieronymites and Igreja Paroquial de São Francisco Xavier.
Monastery of the Hieronymites
Protected area
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal.
Igreja Paroquial de São Francisco Xavier
Church
Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Igreja Paroquial de São Francisco Xavier is a church.
National Museum of Ethnology
Museum
The National Museum of Ethnology is an ethnographic museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum holds the most important ethnographic collections in the country.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bairro de Casas Económicas de Caselas and Ajuda.
Bairro de Casas Económicas de Caselas
Neighborhood
Photo: CorreiaPM, Public domain.
Bairro de Casas Económicas de Caselas is a neighborhood.
Ajuda
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ajuda is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Ajuda is located in western Lisbon, northeast of Belém and west of Alcântara. The population in 2011 was 15,617.
São Francisco Xavier
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Belém, Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.7105° or 38° 42′ 38″ northLongitude
-9.21381° or 9° 12′ 50″ westOpen location code
8CCGPQ6P+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4360243200OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q972747
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“São Francisco Xavier” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Basque: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Cebuano: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Chechen: “Сан-Франсишку-Шавьер”
- Dutch: “Sao Francisco Xavier (Lissabon)”
- Dutch: “São Francisco Xavier”
- French: “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier”
- French: “São Francisco Xavier”
- German: “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier”
- German: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Irish: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Italian: “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier”
- Italian: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Франсишку-Шавьер”
- Luxembourgish: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Polish: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier”
- Portuguese: “São Francisco Xavier (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “São Francisco Xavier (Lisboa)”
- Portuguese: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Russian: “Сан-Франсишку-Шавьер”
- Spanish: “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier”
- Spanish: “São Francisco Xavier (Lisboa)”
- Spanish: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Tatar: “Сан-Франсишку-Шавьер”
- Turkish: “São Francisco Xavier”
- Turkish: “Sao Giao”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Франсішку-Шавієр”
- “Freguesia de São Francisco Xavier”
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