Alhadas

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Alhadas
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Alhadas
Alhadas (Portugal)
Alhadas
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Region of Coimbra
District : Coimbra
Concelho : Figueira da Foz
Coordinates : 40 ° 11 ′  N , 8 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 11 ′  N , 8 ° 47 ′  W
Residents: 4082 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 28.86 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 141 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3090-461
politics
Mayor : Jorge Manuel Rocha Oliveira
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Alhadas
Rua do Jardim Escola, 32 - Alhadas de Baixo
3090-401 Figueira Da Foz
Website: www.jf-alhadas.pt

Alhadas is a municipality ( freguesia ) in Portugal and belongs to the district ( concelho ) of Figueira da Foz .

history

The parish church in Alhadas de Cima, built in 1763, is decorated for the St. John's celebrations

The traces of human settlement found here ( Dólmen das Carniçosas ) lead back to the Neolithic Age .

Dólmen das Carniçosas

Today's place has a number of Moorish legacies, but it was not until the 12th century that the place was first clearly documented as Vila de Alhadas .

In 1514 Alhadas received city rights ("Foral") by King Manuel I , and formed an independent circle. Later Alhadas belonged to the district of Maiorca , with whose dissolution and affiliation to the district of Figueira da Foz also Alhadas came to the district of Figueira in 1853.

In 1989 the place was raised to Vila (small town).

Culture, sports and sights

The listed building of the Sociedade Boa União Alhadense

A number of cultural associations and social institutions offer a variety of activities, including the Sociedade Boa União Alhadense with its building in Alhadas, built in 1854. There are also two folk dance groups ( Rancho Folclórico ), several orchestras and a brass orchestra, and with the Ateneu Alhadense , built in 1924, there is also an amateur theater with its own building.

With the Dólmen das Carniçosas an important site of the megalithic culture is located on the Rota Megalitismo, which leads as a thematic circular route through the municipality.

economy

In addition to smaller companies in wood and metal processing, construction, bakery, pyrotechnics , ceramics and trade, agriculture is still practiced and sand is mined, despite its dwindling importance. Tourism slowly begins to gain importance with rural tourism .

administration

The municipal administration in Alhadas de Baixo

Alhadas is the seat of a community of the same name ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Figueira da Foz , in the Coimbra district . On June 30, 2011 the community had 4082 inhabitants on an area of ​​28.9 km².

The following places belong to the municipality of Alhadas:

  • Alhadas de Baixo
  • Alhadas de Cima
  • Serra das Alhadas
  • Carvalhal
  • Porto Carvalhal
  • Redondos
  • Seixido
  • Guadelupe
  • Broeiras
  • Porto Liceia
  • Bernardas
  • Casal do Grelo
  • Esperança
  • Pincho
  • Santo Amaro da Amoreira
  • Areia
  • Bica
  • Caceira

In addition, Alhadas was expanded to include the dissolved municipality of Brenha in the course of the municipal reorganization of Portugal on September 29, 2013 . This means that the following localities also belong to the municipality:

  • Brenha
  • Cabanas
  • Lírio
  • Vale do Jorge
  • Fonte Casal
  • Estrerneira
  • Cova da Serpe (partly)

traffic

The Alhadas - Brenha stop

Alhadas was connected to the railway network with the Alhadas-Brenha stop of the Ramal da Figueira da Foz until 2009 , since then the line from the CP has been suspended until further notice.

The east can be reached via the national road N109 (Brenha / Alhadas exit) and the A14 motorway , with the Maiorca / Alhadas exit .

The municipality is connected to the local public transport system in the Figueira district (private bus routes with municipal concession).

Web links

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

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. ↑ Isabel Henriques: Figueira da Foz - Rotas do Concelho. Câmara Municipal, Figueira da Foz 2005, p. 61
  4. ↑ Isabel Henriques: Figueira da Foz - Rotas do Concelho. Câmara Municipal, Figueira da Foz 2005, p. 61ff
  5. ↑ www.figueiradigital.com ( Memento from December 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 14, 2012
  6. ↑ Legal text (Portuguese; PDF access 2.4 MB), accessed on March 1, 2015