Almada

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Almada
coat of arms map
Almada coat of arms
Almada (Portugal)
Almada
Basic data
Region : Lisboa
Sub-region : Lisbon metropolitan area
District : Setubal
Concelho : Almada
Coordinates : 38 ° 41 ′  N , 9 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 41 ′  N , 9 ° 9 ′  W
Residents: 174,030 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 70.21 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 2479 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 28
politics
Mayor : Fernando Albino d'Andrade Mendes ( CDU )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Almada
R.D. Leonor de Mascarenhas, 44-A
2804-522 Almada
Website: m-almada.pt
Almada County
flag map
Flag of Almada Location of Almada County
Residents: 174,030 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 70.21 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 2479 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 5
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Almada
Largo Luís de
Camoes 2800-158 Almada
President of the Câmara Municipal: Maria Emília Guerreiro Neto de Sousa, CDU
Website: uf-acppc.pt

Almada is a district and a city in Portugal with 174,030 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

The Cristo Rei statue

The most famous landmark, visible from afar, is the statue of Christ, Cristo Rei, high above the Tejo in the city limits, one of the tallest statues in the world .

history

Almada Fortress, opposite Lisbon (1835)
At the castle ( Castelo ) of Almada

The name probably comes from the Arabic period, from the Arabic al-maden , dt .: the mine. The Moors mined gold in the Adiça mine in Almada County . They built a fortress around which a settlement developed, favored by the location on the Tagus and the associated opportunities for fishing and agriculture. Phoenicians and later Romans settled here before the Arabs .

During the Reconquista , Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , also conquered Almada after the siege of Lisbon in 1147 . He gave the area to the Santiagoorden in 1186 . Almada received its first town charter in 1190 from King D.Sancho I. After a last Arab attack, the Santiagoorden withdrew from Almada, and Almada remained partially destroyed and depopulated. King D.Dinis then handed the area over to the Santiagoorden again with a deed dated December 1, 1297 , which operated the repopulation and reorganization of the Almada district in accordance with the requirements of these renewed city rights. As a result, Almada gained regional importance for administration, military, church, production and trade. During the revolution of 1383 and the following war of independence against the threatened takeover by Castile , Almada experienced a Spanish siege in 1384 .

Almada later became the preferred residence of well-known personalities, including the writer Fernão Mendes Pinto , who later immortalized by Almeida Garrett , Free Luís de Sousa , and for a short time Gil Vicente , who wrote his work Auto da Índia here in 1509 . In 1513 King Manuel I renewed Almada’s city rights.

In the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the following Portuguese Civil War 1828-34 , in which today's district of Cova da Piedade was the scene of a victory for the Liberals, the Almada district was reduced in size under Queen Maria II and in 1878 consisted of the Municipalities of Santa Maria do Castelo, Santiago and Nossa Senhora do Monte da Caparica. From the end of the 19th century, Almada saw the emergence of an increasing number of industrial companies that settled in this logistically advantageous location. As a result, the population increased.

As in Loures , the Portuguese Republic was proclaimed in Almada on October 4, 1910 , one day before the official proclamation. In 1920 the Almada district was expanded to include the municipalities of Cova da Piedade, Trafaria and later Costa da Caparica . The increasing industrial development, especially in the 1960s, caused the population of Almada to continue to grow. On June 21, 1973 , the previous small town ( Vila ) was elevated to a city ( Cidade ).

administration

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Almada is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Setúbal district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 174,030 inhabitants on an area of ​​70.2 km².

The neighboring districts are Seixal in the east, Sesimbra in the south , in the west the district has a long Atlantic coast and in the north it borders on the Tagus Delta, on whose north bank the districts of Lisbon and Oeiras lie.

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from eleven to five.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in this district:

Almada County
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Almada, Cova da Piedade, Pragal e Cacilhas 49,661 6.15 8,069 150312
Caparica e Trafaria 26,150 16.75 1,562 150313
Charneca de Caparica e Sobreda 44,929 29.31 1,533 150314
Costa da Caparica 13,418 10.18 1,318 150303
Laranjeiro e Feijó 39,872 7.82 5,098 150315
Almada County 174.030 70.21 2,479 1503
View over Almada, from Cristo Rei

Population development

Population in Almada County
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
3,363 6,440 15,764 23,694 70,968 147,690 151.783 160,825 173.298

Municipal holiday

  • June 24th
The April 25th Bridge

Town twinning

traffic

rail

With the Metro Sul do Tejo (MST), Almada has its own rapid transit system, which is independent of the Lisbon transport system. The connection to the Portuguese railway network is provided by the Pragal station on the Linha do Sul railway line , which is connected to the city by MST. The double-decker regional trains of the Fertagus also pass Almada on their way to Setúbal .

Street

The A2 motorway passes Almada when coming from the south and merges with the famous Ponte 25 de Abril bridge to the north . The IC20, which has been converted into an expressway, leads west to the coast of Costa da Caparica , while the national road N10 leads from Almada south to the Serra da Arrábida nature reserve and on to Setúbal.

Almada is integrated into the national bus network of Rede Expressos .

water

The ferry connections of the Transtejo to Lisbon represent an important pillar of the regional local traffic. The characteristic orange-colored ferries are colloquially also called Cacilheiros , after the most important landing stage at the Margem Sul do Tejo called region on the south bank of the Tagus, the municipality of Cacilhas .

sons and daughters of the town

Some well-known music groups also come from Almada, including:

  • UHF , punk rock / hard rock band founded in 1977
  • Da Weasel , hip hop group founded in 1993
  • Aenima , darkwave / alternative pop group founded in 1997
  • Ava Inferi , doom metal band founded in 2005

  • José Elias Garcia

  • Romeu Correia

  • Adelino Moura

  • Manuela Ramalho Eanes

  • Luís Figo

  • Anabela

  • Silvestre Varela

  • Arnaldo Abrantes

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ Composition of the Almada municipal council ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.assembleialmada.org
  4. ↑ verportugal.net , accessed on October 28, 2013
  5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  6. ↑ anmp.pt , accessed on February 3, 2013