Glória do Ribatejo is a former civil parish in the municipality of Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Glória do Ribatejo e Granho.[1] It has a total area of 55.03 km², and a total population of 3,427 inhabitants according to the 2001 census.
Glória do Ribatejo | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Glória do Ribatejo Location in Portugal | |
| Coordinates: 39°03′N 8°42′W / 39.050°N 8.700°W | |
| Country |  Portugal |
| Region | Oeste e Vale do Tejo |
| Intermunic. comm. | Lezíria do Tejo |
| District | Santarém |
| Municipality | Salvaterra de Magos |
| Disbanded | 2013 |
| Area | |
• Total | 55.03 km2 (21.25 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 3,427 |
| • Density | 62/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+00:00 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
For decades during the Cold War and after the fall of the Soviet Union, under the administration of Oliveira Salazar and his successors, it was the site of RARET (Portuguese RAdio de RETransmissão (Retransmission Radio)), a United States installation that broadcast programs of Radio Free Europe via shortwave to nations of Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain, including the Soviet Union (and later Russia). It operated from 1951 to 1996, and was the only one to be operated outside Germany. After it was closed, the installation was abandoned.[2]
The town is the setting for Glória, a 2021 historical spy thriller that is the first Netflix production made in Portugal.
References
edit- ^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 106" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ Ribeiro, Nelson (24 April 2017). "Shortwave Broadcasting to Eastern Europe: anti-communist transmissions from a country under authoritarian rule". Connecting the Wireless World research project. University of Bristol.