Alcabideche
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Lisboa | |||||
| Sub-region : | Lisbon metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | Lisbon | |||||
| Concelho : | Cascais | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 44 ′ N , 9 ° 24 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 42,162 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 39.77 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 1060 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 2645, 2649 | |||||
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| Mayor : | Bruno Miguel Correia Ferreira do Nascimento ( PS ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Alcabideche Praceta do Moinho 2645-060 Alcabideche |
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| Website: | www.jf-alcabideche.pt | |||||
Alcabideche is a Portuguese parish ( Freguesia ) in the Cascais district . The Circuito do Estoril car racing track is located in the municipality. The most famous beach of Alcabideche is Praia do Guincho .
history
After the Celtiberians and Romans , the Arabs in particular left their mark here. After the Reconquista , another settlement was built here. The oldest components of the oldest local church date from the 15th century and were used again after the earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 when the church was rebuilt in 1759 . Alcabideche became an independent municipality in 1841 .
administration
Alcabideche is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Cascais in the Lisbon district . On 39.8. km² live 42,162 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The population density is 1060 inhabitants per km².
The following localities are in the municipality:
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traffic
Alcabideche is connected to Lisbon via the A16 motorway. Further connections are the streets IC 30 (Sintra), IC 15 (Cascais - Lisbon), EN 6 (Cascais - Lisbon), EN 9 (Cascais - Alenquer) and EN 249 (Lisbon - Sintra).
Sons and daughters of the church
The most famous son of the city is the poet Ibn Mucana , who left the first written evidence of windmills in the 11th century, the time of the Arab occupation of Alcabideche.
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Alcabideche at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the local government
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ^ History of the community ( Memento of December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the local government, accessed on December 26, 2013
