Santa Engrácia, Lisbon

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Santa Engrácia (English: Saint Engratia) is a former parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish São Vicente.[http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2012/11/21600/0645406460.pdf Lei n.º 56/2012 (Reorganização administrativa de Lisboa)]. Diário da República, 1.ª Série, n.º 216. Accessed 25/11/2012. It has a total area of 0.57 km² and total population of 5,860 inhabitants (2001); density: 10,335.1 inhabitants/km².

The parish was created in 1959, after the Santo Estêvao de Alfama de-annexation. The parish name was intended to honor the catholic martyr Santa Engracia of Zaragoza, later on the King Manuel I daughter, Infanta Maria built a church in the parish to receive a reliquary of the said martyr. After being almost destroyed by a severe storm, the church was rebuilt and eventually received the National Pantheon classification.