Alcaide (Fundão)

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Alcaide
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Alcaide (Portugal)
Alcaide
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Beiras e Serra da Estrela
District : Castelo Branco
Concelho : Fundão
Coordinates : 40 ° 8 ′  N , 7 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 8 ′  N , 7 ° 27 ′  W
Residents: 616 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 16.72 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 37 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 6230-002
politics
Mayor : José dos Santos da Cruz
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Alcaide
Praça Comendador Joaquim Gil Pinheiro, 7
6230-002 Alcaide

Alcaide is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district ( concelho ) of Fundão . It has 616 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The place was probably created in the course of the repopulation of the area during the Reconquista and the consolidation of the Kingdom of Portugal, which has been independent since 1140 . A first church was built here in the 13th century. King Manuel I created the independent circle of Alcaide in 1515, which existed until the 19th century. Since then, Alcaide has been a municipality in the Fundão district.

Culture and sights

Among the monuments are the church, next to the elementary school, the park Jardim do Dr. Fernão Vaz Pinto and the historic town hall, above all a number of sacred buildings , in particular the Mannerist - Baroque parish church Igreja Paroquial de Alcaide (also Igreja de São Pedro ) from the 16th century, which dates back to a first church from the 13th century .

Personalities

Web links

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. ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on June 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ ditto
  5. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on June 29, 2013.