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Vila Franca de Xira

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Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Photo: Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL CC BY-SA 2.0 source
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Bull-running festivals held each July and October make Vila Franca de Xira one of Portugal's most distinctive Tagus-side towns, sitting on the river's banks north-east of Lisbon with mountains visible in the distance. The Lusitano horse — bred in the surrounding Ribatejo marshlands — can be seen at the Lezíria Grande Equestrian Centre nearby. The town's bullring houses an ethnographic museum of Portuguese bullfighting costumes, the Misericórdia church displays 18th-century azulejos, and the 1823 Vilafrancada insurrection, a prelude to Portugal's civil war, unfolded here.

  • Population18,355
  • Nearest water from center0.1 km
  • Nearest mountain from center11.1 km
  • UNESCO within 50 km4
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