Cumeeira (Penela)

The Municipality of Penela has a population of about 5,983 inhabitants. It is located in the district of Coimbra, in the Region Centro of Portugal.
Cumeeira is a village and also the seat of the Parish in the municipality of Penela, with an area of 19.53 km² and 1,072 inhabitants (2011). The village itself has 106 inhabitants, of which only 9% are aged under 20 years.
The village community lives maintaining relations with the agricultural and natural surroundings, although most of the employment is on the third sector. Regarding services, it provides cultural and recreational activities through the Cultural association, and provides an easy access to health, education, culture and leisure due to the proximity to the town of Penela and the city of Coimbra (at a distance of 12 and 36 Km, respectively).

Country

Portugal

Type

mountains, remote

Degree of urbanization

rural

population of 1072

Check out the village strategy:

VILLAGE STRATEGY

Village Solutions

Social Village

The inhabitants of Cumeeira were approached from the beginning about the idea of the municipality to develop the concept of a ‘Social Village’. Since then, the inhabitants have been involved through face-to face meetings with the municipality of Penela where everyone got the opportunity to identify problems and raise their concerns and needs for the development of the smart strategy. In these meetings, the advantages of defining a smart strategy for the village were perceived as an appropriate way to meet the inhabitants’ needs, but, above all, to surpass the village's structural problems. Following ample discussions, it was agreed that the vision for the smart village of Cumeeira would have to be focused on urban development to accommodate the concept of a ‘Social Village’

People

Contact Information

Municipality of Penela, pedro.ferreira@cm-penela.pt

https://www.cm-penela.pt/

Municipality of Penela Ferreira Pedro, pedro.ferreira@cm-penela.pt