Vila Nova de Poiares

Vila Nova de Poiares is a municipality in the district of Coimbra (sub-region: Região de Coimbra), covering 85 km² in 4 parishes. Most of it, 79 %, is forest land (woodland, scrub or natural pasture, according to the COS 2025 land-cover map): there, the strip around each house is 50 m wide.

The map finds 79 villages (groups of at least 10 buildings); the largest are Vila Nova de Poiares, Arrifana and Moinhos. 37 of them have forest land on more than half of the 100 m strip around them, among them Bogalhal, São Miguel de Poiares and Vale de Vaíde.