Vila Nova de Paiva

Municipality in Centro, Portugal

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Coordinates: 40°51′N 7°43′W / 40.850°N 7.717°W / 40.850; -7.717Country

PortugalRegionCentroIntermunic. comm.Viseu Dão LafõesDistrictViseuParishes5Government

• PresidentManuel Custódio (PSD)Area

• Total175.53 km² (67.77 sq mi)Population

(2011)

• Total5,176 • Density29/km² (76/sq mi)Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET) • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)Local holidayMarch 2Websitehttp://cm-vnpaiva.pt/

Vila Nova de Paiva (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvilɐ ˈnɔvɐ ðɨ ˈpajvɐ] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in the district Viseu in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,176,^[1] in an area of 175.53 km².^[2]

The present mayor is Manuel Marques Custódio, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is March 2.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (freguesias):^[3]

Pendilhe
Queiriga
Touro
Vila Cova à Coelheira
Vila Nova de Paiva, Alhais e Fráguas

Notable people

Cláudio Ramos (born 1991 in Vila Nova de Paiva) a football goalkeeper for FC Porto; spent most of his career with Tondela with 267 club caps

References

^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística Archived November 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 135" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 August 2014.