Freguesia
Freguesia, usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution.
Freguesia, usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau. In the past, it was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The civil parishes and communities in England and Wales and parroquia in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a freguesia in Portugal. The average land area of a Portuguese parish is about 29.83 km2 (11.52 sq mi) and an average population of about 3,400 people. The largest parish by area is Alcácer do Sal e Santa Susana, with a land area of 888.35 km2 (342.99 sq mi), and the smallest parish by area is São Bartolomeu (Borba), with a land area of 0.208 km2 (0.080 sq mi). The most populous parish is Algueirão - Mem Martins, with a population of 68,649 people and the least populous is Mosteiro, with a population of just nineteen people.
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Getting to Freguesia
- Airports
- Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim (GIG), 8 km · Santos Dumont (SDU), 13 km
- São Paulo → Freguesia364 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · R$340–530
- Belo Horizonte → Freguesia329 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · R$350–540
- Campinas → Freguesia399 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · R$330–520
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Freguesia
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Freguesia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can get to Paquetá by ferry [http://www.grupoccr.com.br/barcas/linhas-horarios-tarifas/#!/paqueta], departing in the mornings from Praça XV, downtown Rio de Janeiro.
- Get inYou can also take the speed boat, leaving from a place adjacent to the ferry.
From Wikivoyage: Paquetá Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Freguesia is 13 km from Niterói, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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