Tarouca
Municipality in Norte, Portugal
Tarouca (European Portuguese pronunciation: [tɐˈɾokɐ] ⓘ) is a municipality and a city in Viseu District in Norte Region and Douro Subregion in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,046, in an area of 100.08 km2.
The city of Tarouca proper has about 3,400 residents; it was promoted to city in December 2004. The present mayor is Mário Caetano Teixeira Ferreira, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is June 29.
01Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):
02Notable people
- José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858 in Ucanha, Tarouca, 1941) a Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author who wrote extensively on Portuguese philology and prehistory.
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