Celorico da Beira () is a municipality in Guarda District in Portugal. The municipality population in 2011 was 7,693,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
in an area of 247.22 km². Main town: Celorico da Beira, near the

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. Principal monument:

Celorico da Beira Castle Celorico may refer to the following places in Portugal: * Celorico de Basto, a municipality in the district of Braga * Celorico da Beira Celorico da Beira () is a municipality in Guarda District in Portugal. The municipality population in 2011 was ...

. Train station: Celorico da Beira, linha da

Beira Alta Beira Alta may refer to: * Beira Alta Province, a province in the north of Portugal * Beira Alta (region) Beira Alta was one of the 13 regions of continental Portugal identified by geographer Amorim Girão, in a study published between 1927 and 19 ...

. The present Mayor is José Francisco Gomes Monteiro, elected by the

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. The municipal holiday is May 23.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 16 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 ...

''): * Açores e Velosa * Baraçal * Carrapichana * Casas do Soeiro * Celorico (São Pedro e Santa Maria) e Vila Boa do Mondego * Cortiçô da Serra, Vide Entre Vinhas e Salgueirais * Forno Telheiro * Lajeosa do Mondego * Linhares * Maçal do Chão * Mesquitela * Minhocal * Prados * Rapa e Cadafaz * Ratoeira * Vale de Azares

Notable people

João Cabral João Cabral was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, who, along with Estêvão Cacella, were the first Europeans to enter Bhutan in 1627. The following year he became the first European to visit neighboring Nepal and the Sikkim region of India. Ca ...

(1599-??) a Jesuit missionary to

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

. *

José César Ferreira Gil José César Ferreira Gil (1 November 1858 in Celorico da Beira, Portugal - 15 August 1922 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese Army general and a military historian. During World War I, Ferreira Gil served as the Commander of the Portuguese Fo ...

(1858-1922) an Army general and a military historian. *

Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, GCTE (23 May 1881 – 15 November 1924), known simply as Sacadura Cabral (), was a Portuguese aviation pioneer. He, together with fellow aviator Gago Coutinho, conducted the first flight across the South ...

(1881–1924) a Portuguese aviation pioneer. *

Alfredo Cunha Alfredo de Almeida Coelho da Cunha (born in Celorico da Beira, 8 October 1953) is a Portuguese photographer. He is one of the most renowned Portuguese photojournalists. Career Cunha started his professional career in 1970, initially related to pu ...

(born 1953) a Portuguese photographer and photojournalist * Paulo Gomes (born 1973) a Portuguese marathon runner.

References

External links

Municipality official website
Towns in Portugal Municipalities of Guarda District People from Celorico da Beira {{Guarda-geo-stub