Sertã
Sertã, officially Town of Sertã, is a municipality in Castelo Branco District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,880, in an area of 446.73 km2.
The present mayor is Carlos Miranda, elected by the PS. The municipal holiday is the June 24.
Etymology
The town's name literally means "frying pan", but is near-certainly a phono-semantic matching of a pre-Roman toponym. This hasn't stopped the creation of all manner of folk etymological legends seeking to explain name of the town, the most famous of which is the so-called "Legend of Celinda", supposedly a Lusitanian woman who had been frying eggs while the settlement was under attack by Quintus Sertorius' forces and, upon learning of her husband's death, poured boiling hot cooking oil on the besiegers. This story has lent the town its name Sartago Sternit Sartagine Hostes.General information
Local sports club: Sertanense Futebol Clube.Local newspaper: A Comarca da Sertã
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 10 civil parishes :Notable people
- Nuno Álvares Pereira a Portuguese general, he became a mystic and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV, in 1918, and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009
- João Castel-Branco Goulão a physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal