A dos Cunhados

A dos Cunhados
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Oeste
District :	Lisbon
Concelho :	Torres Vedras
Coordinates :	39 ° 9 ′  N , 9 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 9 ′  N , 9 ° 18 ′  W
Residents:	8349 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	44.33 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	188 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2560-019
politics
Mayor :	Dr. Ana Cristina de Abreu Moreira
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de A dos Cunhados Largo do Mercado 2560-019 A dos Cunhados
Website:	www.uf-adoscunhados-maceira.pt

A dos Cunhados is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district ( concelho ) of Torres Vedras . It has 8,349 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

People have settled here since the Paleolithic . In the 9th century, a Christian monastery was built here, which resisted the attacks of the Moors , who had settled in nearby Torres Vedras in the course of their conquest from 711.

The first mention of today's place comes from the year 1527, as a place in a community around the monastery that existed at that time. The residents of the village began building a chapel here in 1570. The Archbishop of Lisbon allowed masses to be officially read there in 1572 and decided in 1581 to found A dos Cunhados' own parish.

In 1995 the place was raised to a Vila (small town).

The place name

The town's founders are said to have been three brothers-in-law ( Portuguese : Cunhado). So the original settlement was known as Lugar dos Cunhados (German: place of brother-in-law), according to tradition. The locally common place name that was created in this way is said to have changed from the abbreviated Dos Cunhados to A dos Cunhados (roughly: The brother-in-law).

Culture, sports and sights

The monuments of the municipality include the remains of the monastery founded in the 9th century ( Convento de Nossa Senhora da Graça de Penafirme ), the Ruínas do Convento de Penafirme, junto à foz da Ribeira do Sorraia (English: ruins of the monastery of Penafirme, at the mouth of the Ribeira do Sorraia).

Ruinas do Convento de Penafirme

After various expansions and renovations, the monastery suffered fundamental damage in the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and became uninhabitable. The monks then rebuilt the monastery about 2.5 km away and the old monastery has since fallen into disrepair.

New monastery building

You can also visit prehistoric tombs in holes in the ground and caves ( grutas ) and the parish church Igreja Paroquial de A-dos-Cunhados (also Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz ) , which was built in the 18th century and decorated with azulejos .

The landscape of the municipality of A dos Cunhados is a protected part of the landscape of the Estremadura-Oeste , the western Estremadura .

The municipality has a number of seaside resorts and beaches, some of which have been awarded the Blue Flag , and which are occasionally the venue for sporting events, in particular the international surfing competition Santa Cruz Ocean Spirit - Festival Internacional de Desportos de Ondas on Praia do Mirante , at Santa Cruz.

administration

Localities

A dos Cunhados is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ). The following localities are in the municipality:

A-dos-Cunhados Boavista Bombardeira Brejenjas Casais do Rego Casais da Serpegeira Casais Vale da Borra Casal da Barreirinha Casal da Carrasquinha Casal da Popa

Casal da Portela Casal de Serpa Casal da Varzinha Casal the paradise Casal de Além Casal do Seixo Casal dos Feros Casal Figueira Velha Casal Ventoso Louribetão

Palhagueiras Pinheiro Manso Póvoa de Além Póvoa de Penafirme Praia da Vigia Quinta da Piedade Santa Cruz - Pisão Sobreiro Curvo Vale Janelas Valongo

Community holiday

• September 10th (is celebrated with a fair in the original sense)

Personalities

• Joaquim Agostinho (1943–1984), racing cyclist
• Tiago Ferreira (* 1975), football player
• André Bernardes Santos (* 1989), football player

Web links

Commons : A dos Cunhados  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Website of the municipality at the district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ^ História A-dos-Cunhados. Retrieved January 15, 2019 . 
4. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 12f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
5. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 8, 2013
6. ↑ ditto
7. ↑ ditto
8. ^ Turismo. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 15, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.