Vila Do Bispo Municipality

Vila Do Bispo Municipality

Vila do Bispo is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 179.0 km² and a total population of 5,381 inhabitants.

The municipality is composed of 5 parishes, and is located in the District of Faro. To its North there is the municipality of Aljezur, to its Northeast Lagos and to its South and West the Atlantic Ocean.

The present Mayor is Gilberto Repolho dos Reis Viegas, elected by the PSD.

The municipal holiday is January 21.

The main square in Vila do Bispo itself has been renamed Praça de Tanegashima in recognition of the twinning of Vila do Bispo with Nishinoomote on the island of Tanegashima. It was a Portuguese, Fernão Mendes Pinto who claimed to be the first European to set foot on Japan and who did so on Tanegashima in 1543.