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Palace of São Bento, Lisbon

The Palace of São Bento in Lisbon houses the Portuguese Assembly, the parliament of Portugal.
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About Portugal

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Satellite view is showing Portugal the westernmost country in Europe, situated on the south-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean.
Border country is Spain, and the country shares maritime borders with Morocco.

Portugal covers an area of 92,090 km² (including the Azores and Madeira archipelagos), it is compared somewhat smaller than Hungary (93,028 km²), or slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Indiana.

Pena Park and the Romanticist Pena palace (Palácio da Pena) in Sintra.
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Portugal has a population of 10.4 million people (2014); national capital and largest city is Lisbon with about 550,000 residents, 2,8 million people live in Lisbon's Greater Metropolitan Area. Spoken language is Portuguese.

Portugal climate is maritime temperate (cool, rainy) in the northwest, its Mediterranean climate in the south is making the country a popular tourist destination.

Portugal's main attractions for travelers are its hilly capital Lisbon; the famous Algarve coast; Sintra and the Palácio da Pena

, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; Portugal's second-largest city Porto (Oporto), Coimbra, Portugal's former capital with its preserved medieval old town, Évora, the capital of south-central Alentejo region with its historic center and its 1st century Roman Temple of Diana, Ponta da Piedade near the port city of Lagos in the Algarve; Madeira island and its capital Funchal; Ponta Delgada in the Azores archipelago. Serra da Estrela (transl.: Star Mountains) is a mountain range and a nature park, it is the largest protected area in Portugal; within looms mount Torre (means Tower), with 1,993 m or 6,539 ft the highest peak in Continental Portugal. Mount Pico an ultra prominent stratovolcano with an elevation of 2,351 m (7,713 ft), located on Pico Island in the the Azores is the highest mountain of Portugal.

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Local Time Portugal:

Friday-June-5 17:54

Standard time zone: Western European Time (WET) No UTC/GMT offset
Daylight saving time in use from end of March until end of October, time zone offset: UTC/GMT +1 hours

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