Torres Novas - Portugal

Torres Novas is a Portuguese city belonging to the District of Santarém, Central region and subregion of the Middle Tagus, with about 12,156 inhabitants. [1] The city of Torres Novas covers five parishes (Salvador, Santa Maria, Santiago, San Pedro and Lapas more recently). Still belonged to the old province of Ribatejo, but without any meaning today of administrative policy.

It is the seat of a municipality with 269.50 km2 and 36,908 inhabitants (2001), subdivided into 17 parishes. The municipality is bordered in the northwest by the municipality of Ourém in the east by Tomar, Vila Nova da Barquinha Junction and the Southeast by Golegã, south and west of Santarem by Alcanena.