Palmela
Palmela is a town and municipality in Portugal. As of 2011, the population was 62,831, covering an area of 465.12 km². The municipality is located in the Lisboa Region and Setúbal District, about 25 km south of Lisbon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 16,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Portugal
- Also known as: “Palmela Municipality”
- Neighbors: Alcácer do Sal, Alcochete, Barreiro, Montijo, Setúbal, and Vendas Novas
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castro of Chibanes and Chafariz D. Maria.
Castro of Chibanes
Nature reserve
Photo: Conistorgis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Castro of Chibanes is located in the Arrábida Nature Park, on the Serra do Louro, in the municipality of Palmela in the Setúbal District of Portugal, about 25 km south of the capital of Lisbon, which can be seen from the site.
Cine-Teatro São João
Theater building
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cine-Teatro São João is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quinta do Anjo.
Quinta do Anjo
Village
Photo: Roundtheworld, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quinta do Anjo is a village, which is situated 3½ km west of Palmela.
Palmela
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Setúbal District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.5696° or 38° 34′ 11″ northLongitude
-8.9012° or 8° 54′ 4″ westPopulation
16,900Elevation
190 metres (623 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT PALOpen location code
8CCHH39X+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1162458625OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Palmela” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالملا”
- Arabic: “بالميلا”
- Basque: “Palmela”
- Catalan: “Palmela”
- Cebuano: “Palmela”
- Chechen: “Палмела”
- Chinese: “Palmela”
- Chinese: “帕爾梅拉”
- Croatian: “Palmela”
- Czech: “Palmela”
- Danish: “Palmela”
- Dutch: “Palmela”
- Esperanto: “Palmela”
- Finnish: “Palmela”
- French: “Palmela”
- Galician: “Palmela”
- German: “Palmela”
- Indonesian: “Palmela”
- Irish: “Palmela”
- Italian: “Palmela”
- Japanese: “パルメラ”
- Lombard: “Palmela”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Palmela”
- Malay: “Palmela”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palmela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palmela”
- Norwegian: “Palmela”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Palmela”
- Persian: “پالملا”
- Polish: “Palmela”
- Portuguese: “Município de Palmela”
- Portuguese: “Palmela”
- Russian: “Палмела”
- Scots: “Palmela”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palmela”
- Slovak: “Palmela”
- Spanish: “Palmela”
- Swedish: “Palmela”
- Tatar: “Палмела”
- Turkish: “Palmela”
- Ukrainian: “Палмела”
- Vietnamese: “Palmela”
- Volapük: “Palmela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palmela”
- “Palmela”
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