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Originally Posted by AlexDelarge
Hi, first of all i don't know if this is the right place of the forum for this question, but here goes...
I would like to know if the surnames Pereira and Candeias exist in Spain in their original form or in the spanish version like Candeaz or something.
Pereira is very common in Portugal, Candeias not so much. Anyway, this is just something i am curious about, and the reason i ask is because i think those names don't exist in Spain.
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Pereira exists. I had a school mate with that name. But it was surely Portuguese in origin.
As for Candelas, I know a family here with that surname. However, this is Eastern Iberia, and that's a name that you'll find more to the West, in the Castilles.
There is, historically, the famed
bandolero (highway man)
Luis Candelas. There is also a restaurant in Madrid with his name (
Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas ), and from what I've hear they keep in the business tradition of Luis Candelas (they reap you off).
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Btw, i think i could have written this in portuguese in this area of the forum, but since this question is more directed to the spanish here i was afraid they would not understand and no one would reply... 
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It would not be the first thread here that there are posts in Portuguese and Castilian, and all understand each other without problems.
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