Sertã

Municipality in Centro, Portugal

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Coordinates: 39°48′N 8°06′W / 39.80°N 8.10°W / 39.80; -8.10Country

PortugalRegionCentroIntermunic. comm.Médio TejoDistrictCastelo BrancoParishes10Government

• PresidentJosé Farinha Nunes (PSD)Area

• Total446.73 km² (172.48 sq mi)Elevation

250 m (820 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total15,880 • Density36/km² (92/sq mi)Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET) • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)Postal code

6100

Area code(+351) 274Local holidayBirthday of Nuno Álvares Pereira, 24 JuneWebsiteOfficial website (in Portuguese)

Sertã (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɨɾˈtɐ̃] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in Castelo Branco District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,880,^[1] in an area of 446.73 km².^[2]

The present mayor is José Farinha Nunes, elected by the PSD. The municipal holiday is the June 24.

Population of Sertã (1801 – 2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
10235	13456	20380	24057	27997	21503	18199	16720	15880

General information

Local sports club: Sertanense Futebol Clube (mainly devoted to soccer, playing (2004-2005) the 3rd Division Championship).

Local newspaper: A Comarca da Sertã (weekly)

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 10 civil parishes (freguesias):^[3]

Parish name	Population (2011)^[1]	Area km²^[2]
Cabeçudo	957	10.39
Carvalhal	465	10.02
Castelo	1,046	24.57
Cernache do Bonjardim, Nesperal e Palhais	3,625	101.58
Cumeada e Marmeleiro	731	51.73
Ermida e Figueiredo	423	42.74
Pedrógão Pequeno	753	36.86
Sertã	6,196	80.95
Troviscal	864	53.37
Várzea dos Cavaleiros	820	34.51

Notable people

Nuno Álvares Pereira (born 1360 in Cernache de Bonjardim - 1431) a Portuguese general, he became a mystic and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV, in 1918, and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009
João Castel-Branco Goulão (born 1954 in Cernache do Bonjardim) a physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal

References

^ ^a ^b Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^ ^a ^b Eurostat
^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 114" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 July 2014.