Viseu

Viseu, is a charming hilltop city and district capital in central . It is situated in the Beira Alta between the mountain ranges of the Serra da Estrela and Serra do Caramulo, about halfway between and off the new A25 Motorway right in the middle of the famous Dão wine region.
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  • Type: City with 59,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: Viseu Municipality” and “Vizeu Celorico
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio do Fontelo and Viseu Cathedral.

Stadium
The is a stadium in Viseu, . It was completed and opened to the public in December 1928. It is mostly used for football matches and hosts the home matches of Académico de Viseu.

Church
is the Catholic bishopric seat of the city of Viseu, in . The church started being built in the 12th century and is the most important historical monument of the town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abraveses and Orgens.

Village
is a Freguesia in the municipality of Viseu, in the Portuguese central subregion of Dão-Lafões. The population in 2011 was 8,539, in an area of 12.23 km².

Village
is a village.

Viseu

Latitude
40.6575° or 40° 39′ 27″ north
Longitude
-7.9139° or 7° 54′ 50″ west
Population
59,500
Elevation
469 metres (1,539 feet)
IATA airport code
VSE
United Nations Location Code
PT VSE
Open location code
8CGJM34P+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 24960091
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2732265
Wiki­data ID
Q117676
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Viseu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بازو
  • Arabic: فيسيو
  • Armenian: Վիզեու
  • Asturian: Viseu
  • Azerbaijani: Vizeu
  • Basque: Viseu
  • Belarusian: Візеу
  • Belarusian: Візэў
  • Bengali: ভয়জু
  • Bishnupriya: ভিসেউ
  • Breton: Viseu
  • Catalan: Viseu
  • Cebuano: Viseu
  • Chechen: Визеу
  • Chinese: Viseu
  • Chinese: 維塞烏
  • Chinese: 维塞乌
  • Czech: Viseu
  • Danish: Viseu
  • Danish: Vişeu
  • Dutch: Viseu (Portugal)
  • Dutch: Viseu
  • Esperanto: Viseu
  • Finnish: Viseu
  • French: Viseu
  • Galician: Viseu, Portugal
  • Galician: Viseu
  • Galician: Viséu
  • Georgian: ვიზეუ
  • German: Viseu
  • Greek: Βιζεού
  • Greek: Βιζέου
  • Gujarati: વાયસ્યુ
  • Hebrew: ויזאו
  • Hindi: विसेउ
  • Hungarian: Viseu
  • Icelandic: Viseu
  • Indonesian: Viseu
  • Irish: Viseu
  • Italian: Viseu
  • Japanese: ヴィゼウ
  • Kannada: ವಿಸು
  • Korean: 비제우
  • Latvian: Vizeu
  • Lithuanian: Vizėjus
  • Lithuanian: Vizeu
  • Lombard: Viseu (Portogall)
  • Lombard: Viseu
  • Luxembourgish: Viseu
  • Malay: Viseu
  • Maltese: Viseu
  • Marathi: वायस्यू
  • Mazanderani: وسئو
  • Mazanderani: ویزئو
  • Min Nan Chinese: Viseu
  • Mingrelian: ვიზეუ
  • Mirandese: Biseu
  • Moksha: Визэу
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Viseu
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Viseu
  • Norwegian: Viseu
  • Occitan (post 1500): Viseu
  • Ossetian: Визеу
  • Persian: ویزئو
  • Persian: ویسئو
  • Polish: Viseu
  • Portuguese: Município de Viseu
  • Portuguese: Viseu (município)
  • Portuguese: Viseu
  • Romanian: Viseu
  • Russian: Визеу
  • Russian: муниципалитет Визеу
  • Scots: Viseu
  • Serbian: Viseu
  • Serbian: Vizeu
  • Serbian: Визеу
  • Serbo-Croatian: Viseu
  • Serbo-Croatian: Vizeu
  • Silesian: Viseu
  • Sinhala: විසේවු
  • Slovak: Viseu
  • Slovenian: Viseu
  • Spanish: Viseo
  • Spanish: Viseu
  • Swedish: Viseu
  • Tamil: விசியு
  • Tatar: Визеу
  • Telugu: వైజ్యూ
  • Thai: วีเซว
  • Turkish: Viseu
  • Ukrainian: Візеу
  • Urdu: ویزیو
  • Vietnamese: Viseu
  • Volapük: Viseu
  • Waray (Philippines): Viseu
  • Western Panjabi: ویسیؤ
  • Wu Chinese: 维塞乌
  • Viseu

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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 “Viseu”. Photo: Michal Gorski, CC BY-SA 3.0.