BARCELOS (PORTUGAL)

 

BARCELOS

GPS: N 41.52855; W 8.62240

Barcelos is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391, in an area of 378.90 km2. With 60 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of parishes in the country.

 It is one of the growing municipalities in the country, and is well known for its textile and adobe industries, as well as for horseback riding events and "figurado" style of pottery, which are comical figurines with accentuated features of farmers, folk musicians, and nativity scene characters.
Barcelos is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a Crafts and Folk Art City

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