Place:Santa Comba Dão, Viseu, Portugal

Watchers
  • no watchers
Larger map


NameSanta Comba Dão
TypeConcelho
Coordinates40.4°N 8.133333°W
Located inViseu, Portugal
Contained Places
Freguesia
Couto do Mosteiro
Nagosela
Pinheiro de Ázere
Santa Comba Dão
São Joaninho
São João de Areias
Treixedo
Vimieiro
Óvoa
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Santa Comba Dão is a city and a municipality in the Viseu District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 11,597, in an area of 111.95 km2. The city proper has a population of 3,300.

The present mayor is Leonel Gouveia, elected in 2013 by Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day.

António de Oliveira Salazar, the leader of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 and founder of the Estado Novo, was born in Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão on 28 April 1889 to a rural family of modest income.

The town's station was formerly a terminus of the Dão line to/from Viseu. This narrow gauge railway opened in 1890 and was closed to passengers in 1988.

Santa Comba Dão was granted city status in 1999. In mid-2000s, a serial killer murdered three young women in the municipality.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Santa Comba Dão. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Santa_Comba_D%C3%A3o%2C_Viseu%2C_Portugal"