🏛️ Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications

Portugal · Europe · Cultural · 38.88°N, 7.16°W

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Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
Elvas, officially the City of Elvas, is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Lisbon, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The municipality population as of 2011 was 23,078, in an area of 631.29 square kilometres (243.74 sq mi). The city itself had a population of 16,640 as of 2011.

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CountryPortugal
Continent / regionEurope
List type🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)38.88°N, 7.16°W · view on map

Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications is a cultural World Heritage site in Portugal, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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