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Olhão (parish)

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Country
  
Portugal

Intermunic. comm.
  
Algarve

Population
  
14,914 (2011)

District
  
Faro District

Region
  
Algarve

Subregion
  
Algarve

Area
  
9.43 km²

Postal code
  
8700

Area code
  
289

Municipality
  
Olhão

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Website
  
http://www.jf-olhao.pt/

Olhão is a civil parish in the municipality of Olhão, in the Portuguese Algarve. The population in 2011 was 14,914, in an area of 12.25 km². Olhão is the largest parish by population density in the municipality.

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Map of Olh%C3%A3o, Portugal

Architecture

  • Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário), constructed in the first-half of the 17th century, it became the centre of the parish when in 1695, Olhão was raised to the status of ecclesiastical parish. It was damaged during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, but reconstructed during the intervening years to include five altars that included retables for Senhor dos Passos; Santa Clara; Santa Luzia and São Sebastião;
  • Church of Nossa Senhora da Soledade (Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Soledade), built in the Baroque and Roccoco styles, the church was once the parochial church, but is primarily used as a pilgrimage chapel.

    • References

    Olhão (parish) Wikipedia
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