Sertã () is a municipality in
Castelo Branco District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,880,
[Instituto Nacional de Estatística]
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The present mayor is José Farinha Nunes, elected by the PSD. The municipal holiday is the June 24.
General information
Local sports club: Sertanense Futebol Clube (mainly devoted to soccer, playing (2004-2005) the 3rd Division Championship).
Local newspaper: A Comarca da Sertã (weekly)
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 10 civil parishes (''freguesias
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Notable people
* Nuno Álvares Pereira
D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. (; 24 June 1360 – 1 November 1431) was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic ...
(born 1360 in Cernache de Bonjardim - 1431) a Portuguese general, he became a mystic and was beatified
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by Pope Benedict XV
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, in 1918, and canonised
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by Pope Benedict XVI
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in 2009
* João Castel-Branco Goulão (born 1954 in Cernache do Bonjardim) a physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal
References
Populated places in Castelo Branco District
Municipalities of Castelo Branco District
People from Sertã
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