Monday, December 21, 2020

FORNOS (FREIXO DE ESPADA À CINTA)


FORNOS (FREIXO DE ESPADA À CINTA)
41.18822º N; 6.75317º W

Fornos is a Portuguese village in the municipality of Freixo de Espada à Cinta, with an area of 28.68 km² and 206 inhabitants (2011). Density: 7.2 inhabitants/km².

It was the seat of a parish that was extinguished in 2013, as part of a national administrative reform, to, together with Lagoaça, form a new parish called União das Freguesias de Lagoaça e Fornos with its headquarters in Lagoaça.

Fornos is located on the Mirandese plateau and is crossed by the national road n.º 221.

One of the former ex libris of the village was the haystacks of Fornos, which have disappeared.