Setúbal
Setúbal | |
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| City of Setúbal | |
Clockwise: View of Setúbal from Castelo de São Filipe; Bocage Gardens; Santa Maria da Arrábida Fort; Praça do Bocage; São Julião Church; view of Setúbal from the Sado Estuary. | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Interactive map of Setúbal | |
| Coordinates: 38°31′27.5″N 8°53′33.4″W / 38.524306°N 8.892611°W | |
| Country | Portugal |
| Region | Lisbon |
| Metropolitan area | Lisbon |
| District | Setúbal |
| Seat | Setúbal Municipal Chamber |
| Parishes | 5 |
| Government | |
| • President | Maria das Dores Meira (Independent) |
| Area | |
• Total | 230.33 km2 (88.93 sq mi) |
| Population (2014) | |
• Total | 118,166 |
| • Density | 513.03/km2 (1,328.7/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+00:00 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
| Local holiday | 15 September |
| Website | www |
Setúbal (/səˈtuːbəl/ sə-TOO-bəl, US also /-bɑːl/ -bahl, European Portuguese: [sɨˈtuβal] ⓘ; Proto-Celtic: *Caetobrix), officially the City of Setúbal (Portuguese: Cidade de Setúbal), is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the entire municipality in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of 230.33 km2 (88.9 sq mi). The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Lisbon downtown by road.
In the times of Al-Andalus, the city was known as Shaṭūbar (Andalusian Arabic: شَطُوبَر [ʃeˈtˤuːbɑr]), after the old pre-Roman name of Caetobriga. In the 17th century, the port was called Saint Ubes in English, and Saint-Yves in French.
The municipal holiday is 15 September, which marks the date in 1765 when Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage was born at three o'clock in the afternoon. However, by that time Setúbal was a village, since only in April 1860 King Pedro V of Portugal officially recognised Setúbal as a city.