Tavira
Tavira is a city in the Algarve region of Portugal. Crossed by the Gilão River, it is one of the most monumental cities in Portugal, with its 37 churches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 13,300 residents
- Description: municipalityin Portugal
- Also known as: “Tavira Municipality”
- Neighbors: Alcoutim, Castro Marim, Loulé, Olhão, São Brás de Alportel, and Vila Real de Santo António
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tavira train station and Câmara Municipal de Tavira.
Tavira train station
Railway station
Photo: CorreiaPM, Public domain.
Tavira train station is a railway station.
Igreja da Misericórdia de Tavira
Church
Photo: cordeiro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Igreja da Misericórdia de Tavira is a church in the Algarve region of Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument. Tavira’s Church of the Misericórdia is an integral part of the Building and Church of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Tavira.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Luzia and Barra do Cochicho.
Santa Luzia
Town
Photo: Reinobaptista, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Luzia is a freguesia in the municipality of Tavira. The population in 2011 was 1,455, in an area of 8.50 km2. It is considered the "capital do Polvo" or "capital of octopus" which is a local speciality.
Tavira
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
37.1262° or 37° 7′ 35″ northLongitude
-7.6499° or 7° 38′ 60″ westPopulation
13,300Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
PT TVROpen location code
8C9J49G2+F2OpenStreetMap ID
node 25277566OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Tavira” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاويرا”
- Arabic: “طبيرة”
- Asturian: “Tavira”
- Azerbaijani: “Tavira”
- Basque: “Tavira”
- Belarusian: “Тавіра”
- Bulgarian: “Тавира”
- Catalan: “Tavira”
- Cebuano: “Tavira”
- Chechen: “Тавира”
- Chinese: “Tavira”
- Chinese: “塔維拉”
- Czech: “Tavira”
- Danish: “Tavira”
- Dutch: “Tavira”
- Esperanto: “Tavira”
- Estonian: “Tavira”
- Faroese: “Tavira”
- Finnish: “Tavira”
- French: “Tavira”
- Galician: “Tavira”
- Georgian: “ტავირა”
- German: “Tavira”
- Greek: “Ταβίρα”
- Hebrew: “טבירה”
- Hungarian: “Tavira”
- Icelandic: “Tavira”
- Indonesian: “Tavira”
- Irish: “Tavira”
- Italian: “Tavira”
- Japanese: “タヴィラ”
- Kalaallisut: “Tavira”
- Korean: “타비라”
- Ladino: “Tavira”
- Lithuanian: “Tavira”
- Lombard: “Tavira”
- Luxembourgish: “Tavira”
- Malay: “Tavira”
- Mazanderani: “تاویرا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tavira”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tavira”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tavira”
- Norwegian: “Tavira”
- Persian: “تاویرا”
- Polish: “Tavira”
- Portuguese: “Município de Tavira”
- Portuguese: “Tavira”
- Romanian: “Tavira”
- Russian: “Тавира”
- Spanish: “Tavira”
- Swedish: “Tavira”
- Tatar: “Тавира”
- Turkish: “Tavira”
- Ukrainian: “Тавіра”
- Vietnamese: “Tavira”
- Volapük: “Tavira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tavira”
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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 “Tavira”. Photo: Pedro Rosa 7, CC BY-SA 4.0.