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Peniche

Peniche is a city in the region of , on a peninsula jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean. Peniche is blessed with several beautiful beaches, which are popular among the surf set.
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  • Type: City with 14,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Peniche Municipality” and “Peniche, Portugal”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Antiga Cadeia Municipal e armazéns anexos and Furninha.

Prison
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is a prison.

Cave
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, also known as Dominique's cave, is a natural cave on the southern slope of the Peniche peninsula in . The cave is situated on the cliffs between the Peniche Fortress and the .

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cabo Carvoeiro.

Locality
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is cape which lies on the Atlantic coast, along the westernmost point of the Peniche Peninsula, in the civil parish of Peniche and the Oeste region.

Peniche

Latitude
39.3569° or 39° 21′ 25″ north
Longitude
-9.3787° or 9° 22′ 43″ west
Population
14,700
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
8CFG9J4C+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25278379
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8010554
Wiki­data ID
Q941967
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Peniche” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بينيتشي”
  • Armenian: “Պենիշի”
  • Asturian: “Peniche”
  • Catalan: “Peniche”
  • Cebuano: “Peniche”
  • Chechen: “Пениши”
  • Chinese: “Peniche”
  • Chinese: “佩尼謝”
  • Chinese: “佩尼谢”
  • Danish: “Peniche”
  • Dutch: “Peniche”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بينيتشى”
  • Esperanto: “Peniche”
  • Finnish: “Peniche”
  • French: “Peniche”
  • Galician: “Peniche”
  • Georgian: “პენიშე”
  • Georgian: “პენიში”
  • German: “Peniche”
  • Hebrew: “פניש”
  • Irish: “Peniche”
  • Italian: “Peniche”
  • Japanese: “ペニシェ”
  • Ladino: “Peniche”
  • Lithuanian: “Penišė”
  • Lombard: “Peniche”
  • Mazanderani: “پنیچه، پرتغال”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Peniche”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peniche”
  • Norwegian: “Peniche”
  • Persian: “پنیچه، پرتغال”
  • Polish: “Peniche”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Peniche”
  • Portuguese: “Peniche”
  • Romanian: “Peniche”
  • Russian: “Пенише”
  • Russian: “Пениши”
  • Spanish: “Peniche”
  • Swedish: “Peniche”
  • Tatar: “Пениши”
  • Turkish: “Peniche”
  • Ukrainian: “Пеніше”
  • Vietnamese: “Peniche”
  • Volapük: “Peniche”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peniche, Portugal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peniche”
  • Yue Chinese: “佩尼謝”
  • “Peniche”

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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 “Peniche”. Photo: joselomba, CC BY-SA 3.0.