Azinheira dos Barros
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| Region : | Alentejo | |||||
| Sub-region : | Alentejo Littoral | |||||
| District : | Setubal | |||||
| Concelho : | Grândola | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 4 ′ N , 8 ° 25 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 704 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 172.52 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 4.1 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Azinheira dos Barros is a village in the freguesia Azinheira dos Barros e São Mamede do Sádão in the western part of the district of Grândola on the western border of Portugal and has an area of 173 km². The village has a population of only about 1141 (2001), but still has a primary school, a kindergarten, a day center, town hall, police station, a youth organization, a small grocery store, a furniture store, a café and a restaurant. Most of the houses are painted white with yellow and blue borders on the doors and windows. The population lives mainly from cattle and sheep breeding, cork mining and the olive harvest. The community was first mentioned in writing in 1513 .
history
Azinheira dos Barros is home to two of Portugal's many and often well-preserved Celtic places of worship and megalithic complexes on the Monte das Boiças hill .
For the longest time the name of the village was simply Bairros , the renaming only takes place in the 19th century. The current name Azinheira dos Barros is associated with popular veneration of Mary and refers to a legend about the image of Mary :
The inhabitants of the village want to build a chapel on the hill “ Outeiro de Palmela ” and therefore put the image of their patron saint “Nossa Senhora da Conceição” there. The next day the picture is in a different place - under a holm oak (pt .: Azinheira). The image is brought back to the hill “Outeiro de Palmela”, but appears again and again in the place under the holm oak. Ultimately, the chapel will be built there.
See also
- Tholos do Barro
- Anta Grande do Zambujeiro
- Anta
- Mámoa
- Pedra Formosa
- Grândola, Vila Morena (the song of the revolution in Portugal, in which the holm oak plays a major role)
Web links
- Junta da Freguesia by Azinheira dos Barros ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
- Monumento megalítico da Pata do Cavalo. In: Pesquisa Geral - Pesquisa do Patrimonio. Direção Geral do Património Cultural , accessed March 28, 2018 (Portuguese).
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