Sesimbra
Sesimbra is a fishing town and municipality on Portugal's Setúbal Peninsula. It has several popular beaches due to its location on Setúbal Bay at the mouth of the River Sado.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fortress of Saint James of Sesimbra and Castle of Sesimbra.
Fortress of Saint James of Sesimbra
Protected area
Photo: Sacavem, Public domain.Castle of Sesimbra
Castle
Photo: Sacavem, Public domain.Fort of São Teodósio da Ponta do Cavalo
Protected area
Photo: Sacavem, Public domain.Sesimbra
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Setúbal District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.4437° or 38° 26′ 37″ north
Longitude
-9.0996° or 9° 5′ 59″ west
Population
4,030
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
Open location code
8CCGCWV2+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Sesimbra” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սեզիմբրա”
- Basque: “Sesimbra”
- Catalan: “Sesimbra”
- Cebuano: “Sesimbra”
- Chechen: “Сезимбра”
- Chinese: “塞新布拉”
- Chinese: “塞辛布拉”
- Dutch: “Sesimbra”
- Esperanto: “Sesimbra”
- Finnish: “Sesimbra”
- French: “Sesimbra”
- Galician: “Sesimbra”
- German: “Sesimbra”
- Greek: “Σεσίμπρα”
- Hungarian: “Sesimbra község”
- Hungarian: “Sesimbra”
- Irish: “Sesimbra”
- Italian: “Sesimbra”
- Japanese: “セジンブラ”
- Korean: “세짐브라”
- Lithuanian: “Sezimbra”
- Lombard: “Sesimbra”
- Luxembourgish: “Sesimbra”
- Malay: “Sesimbra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sesimbra”
- Mirandese: “Sesimbra”
- Moksha: “Сэзимбра”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sesimbra”
- Novial: “Sesimbra”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sesimbra”
- Persian: “سسیمبرا”
- Polish: “Sesimbra”
- Portuguese: “Concelho de Sesimbra”
- Portuguese: “Sesimbra”
- Romanian: “Sesimbra”
- Russian: “Сезимбра”
- Scots: “Sesimbra Municipality”
- Spanish: “Sesimbra”
- Swahili: “Sesimbra”
- Swedish: “Sesimbra”
- Tatar: “Сезимбра”
- Turkish: “Sesimbra”
- Ukrainian: “Сезімбра”
- Urdu: “سیسیمبرا”
- Vietnamese: “Sesimbra”
- Volapük: “Sesimbra”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sesimbra”
- “Sesimbra”
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