Alcântara (Lisbon)

Alcântara
Basic data
Region :	Lisboa
Sub-region :	Lisbon metropolitan area
District :	Lisbon
Concelho :	Lisboa
Coordinates :	38 ° 42 ′ N , 9 ° 10 ′ W Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ N , 9 ° 10 ′ W
Residents:	13,943 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	5.07 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	2750 inhabitants per km²
politics
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia ; Rua dos Lusíadas, nº 13 ; 1300-366 Lisboa
Website:	www.jf-alcantara.pt

Alcântara (from the Arabic القنطرة, DMG al-qanṭara 'the bridge') is a Portuguese community ( freguesia ) in the 2nd Bairro of the capital Lisbon . It is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Belém , Ajuda , Benfica , Campolide , Santo Contestável , Prazeres and the capital river Tejo . The freguesia has existed since 1770, before that it was part of the Ajuda freguesia .

history

On August 25, 1580 , an army of the Spanish King Philip II, under the command of the Duke of Alba, defeated the troops of the Portuguese aspirant António I at Alcântara . Portugal came under Spanish rule for sixty years.

traffic

Ponte 25 de April

Ponte 25 de Abril in Alcântara

The Ponte 25 de Abril connects as a 3.2 kilometer long bridge with a 2278 meter long suspension bridge over the Tejo in north-south direction Alcântara with the southern city of Almada . After the Tsing Ma Bridge , it is the second longest suspension bridge worldwide with combined road and rail traffic. The A2 / IP7 motorway crosses the bridge in six lanes .

Local transport

There are two local train stations in Alcântara : Lisbon Alcântara-Terra Train Station ( Linha de Cintura ) and Lisbon Alcântara-Mar Train Station on the Linha de Cascais . They are about one kilometer apart, which makes it difficult to change trains between local trains arriving there. However, as part of the "Nova Alcântara" project, a new train station and the optimization of the container terminal are planned - an underground connection is also up for discussion.

In addition, the Avenida de India, the main artery towards Belém , Estoril and Cascais , crosses Alcântara . Numerous tram and bus routes serve stops within Alcântara.

The district is not yet connected to the subway network, but an extension of the Linha Amarela of the Lisbon Metro from Rato to the Alcântara-Mar station is under discussion.

LX Factory

As part of the Alcântara XXI urban renewal project , a former industrial site that had been in use since the middle of the 19th century was taken over by the MainSide project development company after the last tenant moved away in order to make it a "hub for the creative industries" under the name LX Factory “To transform. Artists and companies from the creative sector settled here, co-working spaces and cafes, restaurants and shops of tourist interest were created .

Doca de Santo Amaro

Gastronomy in the former Docas de Santo Amaro

At Doca de Santo Amaro there are some bars and restaurants in former and converted port buildings, which have become a tourist attraction. The harbor basin is used by a marina.

Aqueduto das Águas Livres

aqueduct

The aqueduct from the 18th century is one with a length of 19 km to the world's largest buildings of its kind and covers about Queluz Caneças to the Amoreiras Lisbon district. The Alcântara valley spans it in 14 Gothic arches. The tallest of the arches is 65 m high and 28 m wide. In 1967 the company was stopped.

Web links

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

Map of the Freguesia Alcântara at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
Alcântara Municipal Council website (Portuguese)

swell

↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
↑ Alcântara: Sócrates guarantees that with Nova Alcântara the blockades in the economy and in traffic are a thing of the past ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
^ Page of the Metropolitano de Lisboa on the extension to Estrela - Alcântara ( Memento from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
^ Sophia Walk: Architectural Guide Lisbon. DOM publishers, Berlin 2014, pp. 86–89.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_PT_110602-1] 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] Alcântara: Sócrates guarantees that with Nova Alcântara the blockades in the economy and in traffic are a thing of the past ( Memento from May 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Page of the Metropolitano de Lisboa on the extension to Estrela - Alcântara ( Memento from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[5] Sophia Walk: Architectural Guide Lisbon. DOM publishers, Berlin 2014, pp. 86–89.