Mouraria
Mourarias (Portuguese) or Morerías (Spanish), roughly translated as Moorish quarters, were quarters set up by the Spanish and Portuguese in the Middle Ages for the subjugated Moorish population of Andalusian cities. As part of the Christian conquest and resettlement , the Muslims were mostly resettled outside the city walls. With the expulsion of the Moors (Port .: Mouros ) at the beginning of the 17th century and the expansion of the urban areas, the Moors' quarters disappeared, and only a few cities in Spain and Portugal are still named after them (e.g. in Albaicín , Alcalá de Henares , Beja , Calatayud , Constantina , Córdoba , Granada , Lisbon , Madrid , Mérida , Molina de Aragón , Moura , Onda , Seville , Valencia ...). The best known Mouraria is the one in Lisbon's Socorro district .
Mouraria from Lisbon
Coordinates: 38 ° 43 ′ N , 9 ° 8 ′ W If Christian Mozarabs and Muslim Moors (Arabs and Berbers) lived together within the citybefore 1147, the Moorish inhabitants were expelled from their traditional districts after the Portuguese conquest and were only allowed to walk settle outside the city walls and do business there. The newly established settlements along Rua Mouraria were combined in 1596 to form the São Sebastião da Mouraria district, which was then called Nossa Senhora do Socorro from 1646.
The Mouraria lies below the Castelo de São Jorge and, like the Alfama on the other side of the castle , is one of the few quarters that was not destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 . Despite some urban development measures by the Estado Novo regime in the 1940s to 60s, the old quarter, characterized by narrow streets, is run down and one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city, with a relatively large number of older and less affluent people living there. In its history, the district has seen waves of immigration again and again, most recently from Africans and Chinese. The traditionally multicultural district is being partially restored.
The well-known touristic line 28E of the Lisbon tram runs through the Mouraria, which is considered the birthplace of today's fado . The first style-defining Fado singer, Maria Severa , was born there in 1820, probably on Rua do Capelão . The singer Amália Rodrigues , who was registered in the Pena parish opposite, also lived there; Ai, Mouraria was the name of one of their most famous songs. Later many other fado singers like Mísia or Kátia Guerreiro lived there, and the fado singer Mariza also lived for a time in the Mouraria, in the Travessa dos Lagares . In addition, a Lisbon fado band bears the name Mouraria .
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://www.lissabonline.de/wege_durch_lissabon/Durch_die_Mouraria
- ↑ MARCO POLO: Page no longer available , search in web archives: Mouraria, Sehenswert, Lisboa
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- ↑ http://www.portugalmania.de/2008/03/ai-mouraria-ein-traditions-stadtviertel-kampft-gegen-den-niedergang/
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- ↑ http://timeout.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=7263
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literature
- André Clot: Al Andalus - The Moorish Spain, page 243ff. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf and Zurich 2002.
- Klaus-Jörg Ruhl: Spain-PLOETZ - Spanish and Portuguese history to look up, page 55. Freiburg / Würzburg 1986
Web links
- Lisbon Mouraria Urban Upgrade Program website (Portuguese)
- Website of the action group and citizens' movement "Renew Mouraria" (Portuguese)