Santarém (Portugal)

Santarém , is a Portuguese city in the area of Ribatejo and under area of the Lezíra of Tage with 28.900 inhabitants. It is the seat of a municipality with 558,29 km ² of surface and 63.563 inhabitants (2001) subdivided in 28 freguesias. The municipality is limited to north by the municipalities of Oporto de Mós, Alcanena and Torres Novas, in the east by the Golegã and the Chamusca, in south-east by Alpiarça and Almeirim, in the south by the Cartaxo, in south-east by Azambuja, the west by Rio Maior and in the North-East by Alcobaça.

Called in the Scalabis beginning by the Romans, it became an important city-fortress during the wars between the Moors and the Christians and finally was conquered by the Christians in 1147.

The Portas C Ground are the ruins of the castle which was a royal residence during the Middle Ages. Other monuments are the old seminar Jesuit (1676), the Gothic church of the convent of the Grace (with the tomb of Pedro Alvares Cabral which, says one, discovered the Brésil) and the most recent Gothic basilica of Saint Jean de Alporão (now sheltering the municipal museum of sculpture).

The incomes come from the industry of food and tourism of increase. Deposits of kaolin close to Santarém provide the primary matter for pottery.

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