title: Paredes de Coura
text: # Paredes de Coura
  
  Paredes de Coura (Portuguese pronunciation: (listen)) is a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,198, in an area of 138.19 $km^2.$
  
  The municipality is located in the district of Viana do Castelo. The present Mayor is Prof. Vitor Paulo Pereira, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is August 10.
  
  ## Parishes
  
  The municipality is composed of 16 parishes:
  
  * Agualonga
  * Bico e Cristelo
  * Castanheira
  * Cossourado e Linhares
  * Coura
  * Cunha
  * Formariz e Ferreira
  * Infesta
  * Insalde e Porreiras
  * Mozelos
  * Padornelo
  * Parada
  * Paredes de Coura e Resende
  * Romarigães
  * Rubiães
  * Vascões
  
  ## Paredes de Coura Festival
  
  The town is internationally famous for the Paredes de Coura summer rock festival.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Tomás Rodrigues da Cunha (1598–1638) a Portuguese lay brother in the Order of Discalced Carmelites, known as Redemptus of the Cross. Beatified in 1900 by Pope Leo XIII
  