Alcoutim (parish)
Encyclopedia
Alcoutim is a freguesia
(parish) in Alcoutim Municipality (Algarve, Portugal
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Freguesia
Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...
(parish) in Alcoutim Municipality (Algarve, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
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Main sites
- Alcoutim CastleAlcoutim CastleAlcoutim Castle is a castle in Alcoutim, Faro District in southeastern Portugal. It was built in the 13th century and the castle stands in a dominant position on a hill south of Alcoutim town on the right bank of the San Marcos River, its confluence with the Guadiana River. On the opposite side of...
- Roman village of Montinho das Laranjeiras
- Alcoutim Old CastleVelho de Alcoutim CastleVelho de Alcoutim Castle is a castle in Alcoutim Municipality, Faro district, in southern Portugal.One of the most important structures of Islamic military architecture of the Algarve, the monument dominates the top platform of a mountain cliff, overlooking the Guadiana River, about one kilometer...
- Nossa Senhora da Conceição Church