Cernache do Bonjardim is a parish (freguesia) (municipality of Sertã

Sertã

Sertã is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 446.7 km² and a total population of 16,208 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of 14 parishes and is located in Castelo Branco District....

) in central Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

. It is often wrongly spelled Sernache do Bonjardim (due to the old form of spelling, that was it a "S").

The Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira

Nuno Álvares Pereira

Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. , also spelled Nun'Álvares Pereira, was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile...

 was born in Cernache do Bonjardim on 24 June 1360.

The population of the parish is of 3 283 inhabitantes (2001), in 72.06 km².

The parish chairman (presidente da junta de freguesia) is Diamantino Calado Pina (end of term 2009)

The parish includes the following villages:

• Brejo da Correia
• Calvaria
• Carvalhos
• Cernache do Bonjardim
• Escudeiros
• Matos
• Mendeira
  Mendeira
  Mendeira is a village in the Portuguese parish of Cernache de Bonjardim, having less than twenty inhabitants. Climbing Mount Mendeira gives you a superb view over the whole area, situated in a meander of the river Zêzere. Since 2004 the Dutch artist lives, part-time in her house "Casal da...
  
  
• Pampilhal
• Pinheiro da Aldeia Velha
• Porto dos Fusos
• Quintã
• Roda
• Sambado
• Várzea de Pedro Mouro