Almeida (Portugal)

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Almeida
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Almeida coat of arms
Almeida (Portugal)
Almeida
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Beiras e Serra da Estrela
District : Guarda
Concelho : Almeida
Coordinates : 40 ° 44 ′  N , 6 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′  N , 6 ° 54 ′  W
Residents: 1314 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 52.42 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km²
politics
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Almeida
Rua da Administração
6350-105 Almeida
Website: www.jf-almeida.pt
Almeida district
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Flag of Almeida Position of the Almeida district
Residents: 7242 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 518 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 14 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 16
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Almeida
Praça da Liberdade
6350-130 Almeida
President of the Câmara Municipal: Prof. António Baptista Ribeiro
Website: www.cm-almeida.pt

Almeida is a small town and a vila in Portugal . The municipality ( Freguesia ) has 1314 and the district ( Município ) 7242 inhabitants (both as of June 30, 2011). Almeida is one of the twelve historic villages, the Aldeias Históricas .

Almeida city gate

location

It is about 5.0 km to the Spanish border in the east, the border town of Vilar Formoso is 15 km south and belongs to the Almeida district. The Europastraße 80 motorway runs about 11 km south in a west-east direction. Pinhel is 12 km to the northwest and Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo 15 km to the north. The district capital Guarda is about 45 km to the southwest.

history

The traces of local settlement go back to the Paleolithic . Finds from the Copper Age and the Iron Age can also be seen here, such as ramparts ( Portuguese : Castros ), and the Romans also left traces of their presence. However, the place received its greatest importance in the Middle Ages , in the course of the Reconquista and in the subsequent disputes over the preservation of the independence of Portugal . In 1296 Almeida received city rights ( Foral ) for the first time , which were renewed in 1510.

The fortress

Almeida is a fortified city. The city walls are arranged in a star shape around the city center. In the "Chronicle of the Goths" Almeida is mentioned for the year 1039, when it is said that many cities in Extremadura , including Vilar Torpim, Almeida and Idanha on the banks of the Tagus , were conquered by the Moors . In 1296, the fortress first appeared in a charter in the Treaty of Alcañices , which confirmed the possession and repair of the damaged buildings by King Dinis . Nossa Senhora das Candeias (Our Lady of the Candles) is the patron saint . During the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , General Junot moved here in 1807. When the French troops under General Masséna passed through for the last time in 1811, the fortress suffered some destruction.

Worth seeing

  • Military museum
  • Parish church and chapel of grace,
  • Walls and ruins of the castle
  • Some mansions (casas brasonadas)

With Castelo Mendo, Castelo Bom and Almeida, there are three of the twelve historical villages in the district, the Aldeias Históricas de Portugal . Marked hiking trails connect the places.

administration

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Almeida is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Guarda district . The neighboring districts are: Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo in the north, Almeida borders the neighboring country Spain in the east, followed by Sabugal , Guarda and Pinhel in a clockwise direction .

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 29 to 16.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Almeida district:

Almeida district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Almeida 1.314 52.42 25th 090203
Amoreira, Parada e Cabreira 383 31.40 12 090230
Azinhal, Peva e Vale Verde 326 47.05 7th 090231
Castelo Bom 216 25.04 9 090207
Castelo Mendo, Ade, Monteperobolso e Mesquitela 266 41.88 6th 090232
Junça e Naves 192 32.40 6th 090233
Freineda 238 29.24 8th 090209
Freixo de Cima 182 17.18 11 090210
Leomil, Mido, Senouras e Aldeia Nova 221 42.42 5 090234
Malhada Sorda 334 45.77 7th 090213
Malpartida e Vale de Coelha 215 29.01 7th 090235
Miuzela e Porto de Ovelha 415 28.87 14th 090236
Nave de Haver 358 41.13 9 090219
Sao Pedro de Rio Seco 181 22.59 8th 090224
Vale da Mula 182 16.46 11 090227
Vilar Formoso 2,219 15.14 147 090229
Almeida district 7,242 518.00 14th 0902

Population development

Population in the Almeida district (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
3,408 5,604 15,107 17,031 17,479 15,168 14,860 16,107 10,524 10,040 8,423 7.210

Municipal holiday

  • 2nd July

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

  • Bernardo de Brito

  • António Ginestal Machado

  • Statue of Jose Pinto Peixoto at Lisbon University

  • Eduardo Lourenço (picture by Bottelho )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ↑ www.cm-almeida.pt ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2013 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. , accessed February 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cm-almeida.pt
  5. ↑ http://www.jf-almeida.pt/ver?cod=0C0B
  6. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  7. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 2, 2013