Barcel
| Barcel | ||||||
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| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Terras de Trás-os-Montes | |||||
| District : | Bragança | |||||
| Concelho : | Mirandela | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Barcel, Marmelos e Valverde da Gestosa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 22 ′ N , 7 ° 14 ′ W | |||||
Barcel is a place and a former municipality in northern Portugal .
history
The current place was probably founded in the course of new settlements during the medieval Reconquista . Thus, in the surveys of 1258, Barcel is listed as a locality of the Order of St. John the Hospital .
After that, Barcel remained a small town, in 1530 there were 23 residents. The parish church was built in the 17th century. In the registers of 1706, Barcel is listed as a municipality in the Lamas de Orelhão district. In 1796, Barcel had 176 inhabitants. After the administrative reforms at the beginning of the 19th century, Barcel became part of Mirandela County.
Since around 1950, the community has seen increased emigration , especially to France since the 1960s. The population decreased from 315 in 1960 to 126 in 2011.
In the course of the regional reform in Portugal in 2013 , the municipality of Barcel was dissolved and merged with Marmelos and Valverde da Gestosa to form a new overall municipality.
Attractions
In addition to nature, which is accessible via hiking trails of the district administration Mirandela, which lead here in particular through the banks of the Rio Tua , there are some architectural monuments in Barcel:
- Igreja de São Ciríaco , the Mannerist - Baroque parish church of Barcel from the 17th / 18th centuries . Century
- Capela de Santa Marta , mannerist chapel from the 17th century.
- Alminhas de Barcel , shrines in Barcel
- Casa Brasonada em Barcel , small mansion in Barcel
- Fonte em Barcel , stone fountain from the 19th century.
- Capela em Longra , chapel in Longra
administration
Barcel was the seat of a parish of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Mirandela in the Bragança district . The community had 126 inhabitants and an area of 8.55 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
Two localities belonged to the municipality:
- Barcel
- Longra
With the territorial reform of September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Barcel, Marmelos and Valverde da Gestosa were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Barcel, Marmelos e Valverde da Gestosa . Barcel became the seat of the new parish.
Web links
- Entry to Barcel in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Entry of the parish church of Barcel in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA (under Cronologia ), accessed on March 22, 2020
- ↑ Entry of the Capela de Santa Marta in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 22, 2020
- ↑ Alminhas de Barcel's entry in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 22, 2020
- ↑ Entry of Casa Brasonada am Barcel in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 22, 2020
- ↑ Entry of the Fonte em Barcel in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 22, 2020
- ↑ Entry of Capela em Longra in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 22, 2020
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014