Bárrio (Alcobaça)
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| Region : | Centro | ||||
| Sub-region : | Oeste | ||||
| District : | Leiria | ||||
| Concelho : | Alcobaça | ||||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 34 ′ N , 9 ° 1 ′ W | ||||
| Residents: | 1523 (as of June 30, 2011) | ||||
| Surface: | 15.01 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | ||||
| Population density : | 101 inhabitants per km² | ||||
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Bárrio is a Portuguese municipality in the Alcobaça district in the Leiria district with an area of 15 km² and 1523 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). Until 1933 it was part of the municipality of Cela , which, under the name of Cela Nova, was one of the 13 cities of the Coutos de Alcobaça , the historical domain of the Alcobaça Abbey . Bárrio is the youngest municipality in the Alcobaças district. The population lives mainly from agriculture and fruit growing. The municipality is located on a range of hills up to 100 meters high, which slopes down towards the west to a plain that is almost at sea level and which in turn is delimited by another range of hills that form the coastline. The Pederneira lagoon was located here until the 17th century .
On the heights of Bárrio, high above the lagoon of the time, the remains of a Roman villa from the 1st to 4th centuries AD ( Villa de Parreitas ) were excavated in the 1980s . It is believed that there was a Roman settlement here, possibly also a fort to monitor the Pederneira lagoon. In 1981 a museum ( Museo Monográfico do Bárrio ) was opened in Bárrio , in which the most important finds are exhibited. There is no clarity about the origin of the name Bárrio - whether it is Celtic, Roman or Arabic.
literature
- Maria Zulmira Albuquerque Furtado Marques: Por Terras dos Antigos Coutos de Alcobaça , Alcobaça 1994
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Bárrio (Alcobaça) at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Alcobaça County website (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
