Pombal,_Portugal

Pombal, Portugal

Pombal, Portugal

Municipality in Centro, Portugal

Pombal (Portuguese pronunciation: [põˈbal] ⓘ) is a city and a municipality located in the Leiria District in the sub region of Pinhal Litoral in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 55,217,[1] in an area of 626.00 km2.[2] The population of the city of Pombal proper is about 18,000 inhabitants.

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The municipality is served by a railway station which is part of the Linha do Norte, the main Portuguese railway line that connects its two largest cities, Lisbon and Porto.

The Mayor is Luís Diogo de Paiva Morão Alves Mateus since 2013,[3] elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is November 11 and celebrates St. Martin's Day.

In 2017, an 82-foot-long skeleton of a possible sauropod dinosaur was uncovered in a Pombal property owner's backyard.[4]

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes (freguesias):[5]

Heritage sites

Sports

Sporting Clube de Pombal is the major sports club in Pombal. It was established on 20 October 1922 as the branch number 10 of Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP).[6]

Notable people

References

  1. [1]
    Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. [2]
    "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  3. [3]
    Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de. "Apoiantes de candidato independente em Pombal perturbam final de ação de campanha de Passos". Apoiantes de candidato independente em Pombal perturbam final de ação de campanha de Passos (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  4. [4]
    "Europe's largest dinosaur skeleton may have been hiding in a Portuguese backyard". Popular Science. 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  5. [5]
    Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 95" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  6. [6]
    "Filiais do Sporting". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
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