Vila Nova de São Bento is a parish in the municipality of Serpa

Serpa

Serpa is a municipality in Portugal, in Alentejo Region, with a total area of 1104.0 km² and a total population of 16,178 inhabitants. The Guadiana River flows close to the town of Serpa....

, 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...

. It covers an area of 241.69 square kilometers and had 3,430 inhabitants in 2001.

It became a town on April 19, 1988, and until then, was called Aldeia Nova de São Bento. Its patron saint is St. Benedict and its annual festival alternates between the months of May and September.

Notable people

• Filipe La Féria
  Filipe La Féria
  Filipe La Féria is a Portuguese theatre director and producer and screenwriter and producer for television.-Career:...
  
  
• Manuel Monge
  Manuel Monge (military figure)
  Manuel Soares Monge is a Portuguese military and political figure. He is a general in the Portuguese army. He was born in Vila Nova de São Bento 18 February 1938, in the municipality of Serpa....
  
  
• Monge da Silva
• Dinarte Branco