Penamacor (
or ) is a municipality in the district of
Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,682,
[Instituto Nacional de Estatística]
/ref> in an area of .
/ref> The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 9 civil parishes ('' freguesias''):
* Aldeia do Bispo, Águas e Aldeia de João Pires
* Aranhas
* Benquerença
* Meimão
* Meimoa
* Pedrógão de São Pedro e Bemposta
* Penamacor
* Salvador
* Vale da Senhora da Póvoa
Notable people
* António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (7 March 1699, – 14 October 1783) was an 18th-century Portuguese physician, philosopher and encyclopédiste. He was a '' cristão novo'' of Jewish descent, probably a practising Jew.
He studied at the univers ...
(1699 in Penamacor – 1783 in Paris) a physician, philosopher and encyclopédiste.
* Francisco Cunha Leal (1888 in Pedrógão – 1970) politician during the Portuguese First Republic
The First Portuguese Republic ( pt, Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: ''República Portuguesa'', Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy ...
; 84th Prime Minister of Portugal, 1921/1922.
* Joaquim Furtado
Joaquim da Silva Furtado (Penamacor, 1948) is a Portuguese journalist, reporter, television anchor and documentary film director. He worked during almost all his entire career for state-run RTP television network, including in RTP 2 for many year ...
(born 1948 in Penamacor) a journalist, reporter, TV anchor and documentary film director. Joaquim Furtado, IMDb Database
retrieved 28 July 2021.António José Seguro
António José Martins Seguro (born 11 March 1962) is a Portuguese politician for the Socialist Party (PS). Seguro was Secretary General of the PS from 2011 until September 2014, and he was the leader of the largest opposition party in the Por ...
(born 1962 in Penamacor) a Portuguese politician
References
External links
Town Hall official website
Populated places in Castelo Branco District
Municipalities of Castelo Branco District
People from Penamacor
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