São Pedro Do Sul, Portugal
São Pedro do Sul () is a Concelho, municipality in the Centro Region, Portugal, Central Portugal, Portuguese district of Viseu (district), Viseu. Part of the subregion of Dão-Lafões, the municipality has a population of 16,851 inhabitants and includes 14 Freguesia (Portugal), civil parishes. The seat of this municipality is the city of São Pedro do Sul, with a population of 5,728 inhabitants. History Pre-Roman One of the oldest monuments of the region is the "Pedra Escrita" that is a written granitic megalith dated from 10th century BC. In the region there are three known "Castros". The castro is a fortified village that began to be inhabited from the 6th century BC, lacking streets with right angles and characterised by construction which is almost always circular. One of the Castros in São Pedro do Sul is Castro da Cárcoda. Roman Era In the region there are several Roman bridges and Roman Thermal Spas. Middle Ages São Pedro do Sul was the southern border of the Kingdom ...
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Centro Region, Portugal
The Central Region ( pt, Região do Centro, ) or Central Portugal is one of the NUTS statistical regions of Portugal, statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Portugal, Aveiro, Viseu, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Castelo Branco, Covilhã, Torres Vedras and Guarda, Portugal, Guarda. It is one of the seven Regions of Portugal (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS II subdivisions). It is also one of the regions of Europe, as given by the European Union for statistical and Geography, geographical purposes. Its area totals . As of 2011, its population totalled 2,327,026 inhabitants, with a population density of 82 inhabitants per square kilometre. History Inhabited by the Lusitanians, an Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people living in the western Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republic, Romans settled in the region and colonized it as a part of the Roman Province of ...
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