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Vila Pouca da Beira is a village and former civil parish in the municipality of Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Santa Ovaia e Vila Pouca da Beira. It has a surface area of 5.12 km2 and 383 inhabitants (2001). Its population density is 74,8 inhabitants/km2.
Vila Pouca was an independent municipality until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1801, when it became a parish of Avô, it had 402 inhabitants. The municipality of Avô, and with it Vila Pouca, merged into the municipality of Oliveira do Hospital in 1855.
A historical landmark in Vila Pouca is an 18th-century former convent, the Convento do Desagravo do Santíssimo Sacramento ("Convent of the Soothing of the Blessed Sacrament"). When the last nun of the convent died in the beginning of the 19th century the convent became a military hospital. It ultimately became a pousada around the beginning of the 21st century.

Convento do Desagravo do Santíssimo Sacramento




























Persons


Dutch writer Gerrit Komrij resided in the village.




References






External links


(in Portuguese) Site of the junta de freguesia (parish council) of Vila Pouca da Beira

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• Vila Pouca da Beira
• Vila Pouca
• Santa Ovaia e Vila Pouca da Beira
• List of freguesias of Portugal: O
• Oliveira do Hospital
• List of castles in Portugal
• List of towns in Portugal
• Pousadas de Portugal
• List of regions and sub-regions of Portugal
• Madragana