Viana do Alentejo

Viana do Alentejo is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,743, in an area of 393.67 km².
The present Mayor is Bernardino Bengalinha Pinto, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is January 13.

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Climate

Viana do Alentejo has a Mediterranean climate with mild, rainy winters and hot to very hot, dry summers.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 3 civil parishes :

Aguiar
Alcáçovas
Viana do Alentejo

Notable residents

Notable people from Viana do Alentejo include:

Joana da Gama a Portuguese writer.
Duarte Lobo a Portuguese composer.
Aleixo de Abreu a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist.
António Francisco Cardim a Jesuit priest, missionary and historian in the Far East.
António Banha actor.

Twin towns

Viana do Alentejo is twinned with:

Igarassu, Brazil
Porto Seguro, Brazil
Viana, Brazil