Vendas Novas

Vendas Novas
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 38°41′N 8°27′W
Country	Portugal
Region	Alentejo
Intermunic. comm.	Alentejo Central
District	Évora
Parishes	2
Government
• President	Luís Dias (PS)
Area
• Total	222.39 km^2 (85.87 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	11,846
• Density	53/km^2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Local holiday	September 7
Website	www.cm-vn.pt

Vendas Novas (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvẽdɐʒ ˈnɔvɐʃ] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 11,846,^[1] in an area of 222.39 km².^[2] The city has 10,235 inhabitants.

The present Mayor is Luís Dias, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is September 7.

History

One of the Vendas Novas plaques in the British Museum

The other Vendas Novas plaque in the British Museum

A hoard of prehistoric objects, including two trapezoid-shaped plaques with geometric designs, was found underneath a hill by labourers in the mid nineteenth century during the construction of the railway line between Vendas Novas and Beja. They are since 1862 kept at the British Museum.^[3]

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 2 civil parishes (freguesias):^[4]

• Landeira
• Vendas Novas

Notable people

• Ricardo Pessoa (born 1982) a Portuguese former professional footballer with 430 club caps
• Pedro Madeira (born 1992 in Vendas Novas) a Portuguese singer.

References

1. Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
3. British Museum Collection
4. Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 126" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 4 August 2014.

External links

• Town Hall official website
• Photos from Vendas Novas