Chamusca () is a municipality in
Santarém District
The District of Santarém ( pt, Distrito de Santarém ) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's ''Centro Region''. The district capital is the city of Santarém.
The district is the 3rd largest in Portugal, with an area of , and a pop ...
in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 8,530, in an area of 746.01 km².
The present Mayor is Paulo Queimado, elected by the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
. The municipal holiday is
Ascension Day
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.
Climate
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (''
freguesias
''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...
''):
* Carregueira
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Chamusca e Pinheiro Grande
Chamusca e Pinheiro Grande is a Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality of Chamusca Municipality, Chamusca, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Chamusca (Chamusca), Chamusca and Pinheiro Grande. The p ...
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Parreira e Chouto
Parreira e Chouto is a civil parish in the municipality of Chamusca
Chamusca () is a municipality in Santarém District in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 8,530, in an area of 746.01 km².
The present Mayor is Paulo Queimado, elected b ...
* Ulme
* Vale de Cavalos
Notable people
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Ruy Gómez de Silva, 1st Prince of Éboli
Dom Rui Gomes da Silva (in Spanish, Ruy Gómez de Silva), 1st Prince of Eboli (27 October 1516 in Chamusca – 29 July 1573 in Madrid), was a Portuguese noble and one of King Philip II of Spain's main advisers.
Earlier life
Rui Gomes da Silva ...
(1516 in Chamusca – 1573) a Portuguese noble and adviser to King
Philip II of Spain
Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...
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José Cid
José Albano Cid de Ferreira Tavares (born 4 February 1942) is a Portuguese singer, composer and record producer. Internationally, Cid is best known for his 1978 progressive rock album'' 10,000 Anos Depois Entre Vénus e Marte'' and for represe ...
(born 1942 in Chamusca) a Portuguese singer and composer.
See also
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Chamusca IPR Chamusca is a Portuguese wine region centered on the town of Chamusca in the Ribatejo region. The region was initially a separate '' Indicação de Proveniencia Regulamentada'' (IPR) region, but in 2003, it became one of six subregions of the Riba ...
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Photos from Chamusca
Towns in Portugal
Populated places in Santarém District
Municipalities of Santarém District
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