Giões (Alcoutim)
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Giões is a freguesia
(parish) in the municipality of Alcoutim
(Algarve, Portugal
). It has a total area of 65.95km2, 307 inhabitants (2001) and a density of 4.7hab/km2.
Freguesia
Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...
(parish) in the municipality of Alcoutim
Alcoutim
Alcoutim is a town and a municipality in southeastern Portugal near the border with Spain. The municipality has a total area of 575.32 km² and a population of 3,411 inhabitants. At the Portuguese census of 2001 it had a population of 3,770 inhabitants and was the least densely populated...
(Algarve, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
). It has a total area of 65.95km2, 307 inhabitants (2001) and a density of 4.7hab/km2.
Main sites
- Relíquias Castle
- Nossa Senhora da Oliveira Church