Alandroal

Alandroal
Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Alentejo Central
District :	Évora
Concelho :	Alandroal
Coordinates :	38 ° 42 ′ N , 7 ° 24 ′ W Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ N , 7 ° 24 ′ W
Residents:	5843 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	542.68 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km²
Alandroal County
Residents:	5843 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	542.68 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Alandroal ; Praça da República ; 7250-116 Alandroal
President of the Câmara Municipal:	João Maria Aranha Grilo (MUDA citizen list)
Website:	www.cm-alandroal.pt

Alandroal is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 5843 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

View of the historic center of Alandroal

history

The order of knights of Avis built a castle here in 1298 , at the behest of King D. Dinis . The village that emerged as a result was named Alandroal, probably going back to a local oleander garden ( Portuguese : Alandroal) of the friars of Avis. The place received the town charter ( Foral ) in 1486 from King D. João II. King D. Manuel I renewed the town charter in 1514 in the course of his administrative reforms.

The place suffered some damage during the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 . As a result, a number of buildings were rebuilt, including the town hall.

The Castelo de Alandroal castle

Culture and sights

In addition to two stone fountains, the fortress and several historic public buildings mainly include a number sacred to the monuments in Alandroal, including going back to a 1320 built Gothic parish church Igreja Matriz do Alandroal The as Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição run, in 16 The single-nave church, newly built in the 19th century, shows elements of Manueline and Baroque styles . The historic town center as a whole is also a listed building.

In addition to the Alandroal castle, there are other fortifications in the district, for example in Terena .

administration

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Alandroal is the seat of a district of the same name, which borders on Spain to the east . The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Vila Viçosa , Mourão , Reguengos de Monsaraz and Redondo .

In the course of the territorial reform in Portugal on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Alandroal (Nossa Senhora da Conceição) , São Brás dos Matos (Mina do Bugalho) and Juromenha (Nossa Senhora do Loreto) were combined to form a new municipality, so that the total number of the district parishes decreased from six to four.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Alandroal district:

Alandroal County

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Alandroal, São Brás dos Matos e Juromenha	2,344	259.58	9	070107
Capelins	527	87.14	6th	070104
Santiago Maior	2,205	112.99	20th	070103
Terena	767	82.97	9	070105
Alandroal County	5,843	542.68	11	0701

Population development

Population in the Alandroal district (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
1 541	4,651	7 493	10 444	12 089	8 124	7 347	6 585	5,928

Municipal holiday

Easter Monday

Town twinning

Cape Verde Cape Verde : Santa Cruz , Santiago Island

Cuba Cuba : Regla , Havana Province

Brazil : Jerumenha , State of Piauí

Brazil Brazil : Curitiba , Paraná state

Spain : Olivença (cooperation agreement since February 21, 2013)

sons and daughters of the town

Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530), Portuguese navigator and explorer
João Lopes de Sequeira (* 1480, † between 1529 and 1544), navigator, founder of the Fortaleza de Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué , from which Agadir arose
Gomes Freire de Andrade, Count of Bobadela (1685–1763), noble military and colonial administrator, first Count of Bobadela

The Swiss-American painter Michael Biberstein (1948–2013) died here.

Web links

Commons : Alandroal - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
↑ ^a ^b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 15f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on July 12, 2013
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↑ Legal text (page 4) (PDF; 2.4 MB) in the Diário da República of January 28, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2013
↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on July 12, 2013

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_PT_0701-1] www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[Fläche-2] Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

[3] João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 15f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )

[4] www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on July 12, 2013

[5] www.monumentos.pt , accessed on July 12, 2013

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[7] Legal text (page 4) (PDF; 2.4 MB) in the Diário da República of January 28, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2013

[8] www.anmp.pt , accessed on July 12, 2013