Gouveia (Portuguese pronunciation: (listen)) is a city and a municipality in the district of Guarda in Portugal. The municipality population in 2011 was 14,046, in an area of 300.61 square kilometres (116.07 sq mi). The town itself has a very small population, around 3.500. The present mayor is Luis Marques Tadeu, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is the Monday after the 2nd Sunday of August. The establishment of Gouveia is often attributed to the year 580 BC, but the oldest material proof of human occupation is funerary pottery dating to the Bronze Age that was found in a castle square in 1940. In the parish of Rio Torto, the oldest evidence of human occupation is a dolmen (a stone funerary structure) dating back to the fourth millennium BC. More information...
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