Vila Pouca da Beira
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Vila Pouca da Beira is a village and freguesia
(parish) in the Portuguese
municipality of Oliveira do Hospital
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It has a surface area of 5.12 km² and 383 inhabitants (2001). Its population density is 74,8 inh/km².
Vila Pouca was an independent municipality until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1801, when it became a parish of Avô
, it had 402 inhabitants. The municipality of Avô, and with it Vila Pouca, merged into the municipality of Oliveira do Hospital in 1855.
A historical landmark in Vila Pouca is an 18th century former convent, the Convento do Desagravo do Santíssimo Sacramento ("Convent of the Soothing of the Blessed Sacrament"). When the last nun of the convent died in the beginning of the 19th century the convent became a military hospital. It ultimately became a pousada around the beginning of the 21st century.
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 the Portuguese
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...
municipality of Oliveira do Hospital
Oliveira do Hospital
Oliveira do Hospital is a municipality in the old district of Coimbra, in the central part of continental Portugal.-History:Inhabited by ancient civilizations, Oliveira do Hospital has Roman settlements, Visigothic relics, noble Gothic mansions as well as ancient villages built of slate...
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It has a surface area of 5.12 km² and 383 inhabitants (2001). Its population density is 74,8 inh/km².
Vila Pouca was an independent municipality until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1801, when it became a parish of Avô
Avô
Avô is a town in Portugal....
, it had 402 inhabitants. The municipality of Avô, and with it Vila Pouca, merged into the municipality of Oliveira do Hospital in 1855.
A historical landmark in Vila Pouca is an 18th century former convent, the Convento do Desagravo do Santíssimo Sacramento ("Convent of the Soothing of the Blessed Sacrament"). When the last nun of the convent died in the beginning of the 19th century the convent became a military hospital. It ultimately became a pousada around the beginning of the 21st century.