Municipality of Vila Nova de Cerveira


: Aug 10, 2016


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Vila Nova de Cerveira is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,253 in an area of km². Between the river and the mountain, Vila Nova de Cerveira is located on the left bank of Minho River, which establishes the border with Spain, and is limited to northeast with the municipality of Valença, Paredes de Coura to the east, Ponte de Lima to the south, and Caminha to south-southwest.

The Municipality of Vila Nova de Cerveira is the responsible for defining and implementing policies aimed at protecting the interests and meet the needs of the local population of Vila Nova de Cerveira.
In this sense, it must promote the development of the municipality in all areas of life, such as health, education, social action and housing, environment and sanitation, land use planning and urban planning, transport and communications, public supply, sport and culture, consumer protection and civil protection.
The municipality is part of the traditional public administrative state at local level, developing its action pursuant to the Law of Local Councils and other legislation applicable to the sector.
Within the scope of the competences and duties provided in the law, one of Vila Nova de Cerveira’s municipality's central objective is the approach of local administration to citizens, and the swifter attendance to meet inhabitants’ needs and requirements in what concerns to the socio-economic development, land use planning, public water supply, sanitation, health, education, culture, environment, sports and other inalienable citizens’ rights which it represents.

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