Tires, Portugal


Tires is a Portuguese village located in the civil parish of São Domingos de Rana, in the coastal municipality of Cascais.

History

The first known reference to the village of Tires is from 1527, called at the time Tyras, and had around 10 dwellings, where the main activity was the production of wheat. In the census of 1960, Tires had 1887 inhabitants.
On 17 April 2017 a Swiss-registered light airplane crashed near a Lidl supermarket located in the village. At least five people were killed, including the pilot.

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