Moura, Portugal
Moura, officially the Notable Town of Cal, is a city and a municipality in the District of Beja in Portugal, subdivided into 5 freguesias. The population in 2021 was 13,258, in an area of. The city itself had a population of 8,459 in 2001. It has now around 11,000 inhabitants.
The current mayor is José Pós de Mina, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The municipal holiday is 24 June.
Wants to be home to Photovoltaic Power Station, one of Europe's largest solar-power facilities but the real location it’s in Amareleja.
There are two wine regions within the borders of Moura municipality: Moura centered around the town of Moura and Granja-Amareleja within the parishes of Amareleja, Póvoa de São Miguel and part of Santo Amador and São João Baptista.
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes :- Amareleja
- Moura e Santo Amador
- Póvoa de São Miguel
- Safara
- Santo Aleixo da Restauração
- Sobral da Adiça
Climate
Town Twinning
Moura has cooperation agreements with the following cities:- Aroche, Spain, since 1994
- Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, since 1997
- Amareleja-Valencia del Mombuey, Spain, since 2000
- Medjez El Bab, Tunisia, since 1995
- Roccagorga, Italy
- Moura, Australia
Notable people
- Gonçalo Abecasis a Portuguese American biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan
- Corino Andrade a leading neurologist and researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy syndrome
- Miguel Garcia a former footballer with 228 club caps
- Eunice Muñoz a Portuguese actress
- Francisco Martins Rodrigues a Portuguese anti-Fascist and the founder of the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee
- António Rolim de Moura Tavares the 1st Count of Azambuja and the 10th Viceroy of Brazil