Vila do Conde

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Vila do Conde
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Vila do Conde
Vila do Conde (Portugal)
Vila do Conde
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Porto metropolitan area
District : postage
Concelho : Vila do Conde
Coordinates : 41 ° 21 ′  N , 8 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 21 ′  N , 8 ° 45 ′  W
Residents: 28,636 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 6.78 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 4224 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4480
Vila do Conde county
flag map
Flag of Vila do Conde Location of the district of Vila do Conde
Residents: 79,533 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 149.02 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 534 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 21st
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Vila do Conde
Rua da Igreja
4480-754 Vila do Conde
President of the Câmara Municipal: Elisa Ferraz (independent)
Website: www.cm-viladoconde.pt

Vila do Conde is a city in northwestern Portugal , 32 kilometers by road north of Porto at the mouth of the Ave River .

The town

history

The Romans already founded a fort high on a hill above the river . The area was later settled by the Celts . The city was first mentioned in a document as Villa de Comite ("City of the Count" = Vila do Conde ) in 953 . Dom Sancho gave it to his royal lover Ribeirinha (Dona Maria Paes Ribeira) in 1209 .

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the city's port had developed into one of the most important in the country. Accordingly, a royal customs office ( Alfândega Régia ) was set up in Vila do Conde in 1487 . The brisk shipping traffic meant that numerous shipyards were built near the mouth of the Rio Ave.

Around 1500, Vila do Conde was elevated to Vila (small town) by King Manuel I ; in 1988 Vila do Conde was given city status ( Cidade ).

Sights and culture

The Mosteiro de Santa Clara , a former Carmelite convent , founded in 1318, now stands on the site of the former Roman fort and presumably the later count's castle . At the apse ends of the Monastery, 7 km long, 999 sheets from 1705 to 1714 built the aqueduct that of Terroso in the mountains near Povoa de Varzim brings you here and for long stretches still very well preserved.

In the city center, at the market, is the parish church (port .: Igreja Matriz) São João Baptista (St. John the Baptist) . The church was built from 1500/1514 over a cross-shaped floor plan with side apses and battlements. The left aisle is flanked by a mighty, wide bell tower.

In front of the church there is a pelourinho ( stake ) with a twisted column shaft and with the arm of justice at the top of the column proclaims the power of the state. A small chapel with a tiled facade can be visited nearby.

About six kilometers east of Vila do Conde, near the settlement of Vila Fria, are the hermit caves of Sabariz .

The annual Curtas Vila do Conde short film festival has been held here since 1993 and has since grown into a music, art and culture festival.

The Banco Borges e Irmão (BBI) building designed by architect Álvaro Siza Vieira was awarded the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 1988 .

Sports

Vila do Conde is the hometown of the soccer club Rio Ave FC , which has played in the top Portuguese league since the 2007/2008 season .

gallery

  • Pictures of the city

  • Mosteiro de Santa Clara

  • Mosteiro de Santa Clara

  • View of the Rio Ave from the Mosteiro

  • Parish church

  • Parish Church - interior view

  • aqueduct

  • Chapel at the parish church

  • Pelourinho in front of the parish church

administration

The circle

Vila do Conde is the seat of the district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Póvoa de Varzim , Vila Nova de Famalicão , Trofa , Maia , Matosinhos . To the west is the Atlantic Ocean .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 30 to 21.

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Vila do Conde county:

Vila do Conde county
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Árvore 5,196 6.56 792 131602
Aveleda 1.314 3.70 355 131603
Azurara 2,305 2.16 1,065 131604
Bagunte, Ferreiró, Outeiro Maior e Parada 2,848 21.86 130 131631
Fajozes 1,425 5.96 239 131607
Fornelo e Vairão 2,643 10.85 244 131632
Gião 1,756 5.66 310 131610
Guilhabreu 2,357 6.46 365 131611
Junqueira 2,019 6.83 296 131612
Labruge 2,806 5.07 553 131613
Macieira da Maia 2,321 5.93 392 131614
Malta e Canidelo 2,291 5.47 419 131633
Mindelo 3,491 5.74 608 131616
Modivas 1,806 4.10 441 131617
Retorta e Tougues 2,052 6.55 313 131634
Rio Mau e Arcos 2,681 15.70 171 131635
Touguinha e Touguinhó 3,386 7.72 438 131636
Vila Chã 3,094 4.81 643 131627
Vila do Conde 28,636 6.78 4.224 131628
Vilar e Mosteiró 2,569 7.33 351 131637
Vilar de Pinheiro 2,537 3.78 671 131630
Vila do Conde county 79,533 149.02 534 1316

Population development

Population in Vila do Conde County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
3623 17,781 27,366 34,116 48,806 64,402 64,836 74,391 79,390

Municipal holiday

Town twinning

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Bust of António Bento Martins Junior

  • Manuela Azevedo, live 2007

  • Paulinho Santos as assistant coach at FC Porto (2013)

  • José Azevedo (2004)

  • Fábio Coentrão in the shirt of Real Madrid (2012)

Connected to Vila do Conde

  • Gomes Eanes de Azurara (around 1410–1474), historian, born in Azurara, the suburb of Vila do Conde south of the Rio Ave, received his first training at a convent school in Vila do Conde.
  • Antero de Quental (1842–1891), poet and social reformer, spent the last decade of his life, from 1881 onwards, in Vila do Conde.
  • Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885–1979) lived in Vila do Conde from 1915 to 1917.
  • José Mourinho (* 1963), soccer player and soccer coach, played for Rio Ave FC from 1980 to 1982.

Web links

Commons : Vila do Conde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014.
  5. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 3, 2013.
  6. ↑ Ellen W. Sapega: Portugal . In: Pericles Lewis (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011. ISBN 978-0-521-19941-4 . Pp. 139–150, here p. 144.
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