Description Pombal

Pombal is a Portuguese city belonging to the district of Leiria, in the province of Beira Litoral, integrating the Intermunicipal Community of the Region of Leiria, in the region of Centro de Portugal, whose city has about 11 000 inhabitants. It was officially elevated to city on August 16, 1991.

It is the seat of a municipality with 626.00 km² of area and 53 288 inhabitants (2016), subdivided into 13 parishes. The municipality is limited to the North by the municipalities of Figueira da Foz and Soure, to the East by Ansião and Alvaiázere, to the Southeast by Ourém, to the Southwest by Leiria and to the West it has a coastline in the Atlantic Ocean (Praia do Osso da Baleia) . Much of the wealth is still alive in a loft on pavements, statues and even in the canals.

He was the master of the Templars D. Gualdim Pais who in the century. XII ordered the construction of Pombal Castle, around which the locality was developed, in a region that at the time was the dividing line between the territory already conquered by Christians and that which was still in the possession of the Moors.

By order of the Marquis of Pombal, who in the century. XVIII here spent his last years of life, the lower part of the village was ordered and some public buildings were built. It was with the construction of the royal road Lisbon-Porto, which passed through the middle of the population, that the whole region came to gain a new impulse of development.

Nowadays the road no longer passes through the city center, but the region is endowed with excellent access, which facilitates circulation in the surroundings and the visit of the Serra de Sicó, with its caves and the typical villages where the products are still made. cheeses, traditional cakes and handicrafts, with rugs, baskets and mats of bracejo, ceramics and weaving.

Descending to the coast, through the Mata Nacional do Urso, you will discover quiet beaches where you can practice the most varied water sports.