Barreiro

This article describes the city in Portugal. For name bearers see Barreiro (disambiguation)

Barreiro
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Basic data
Region :	Lisboa
Sub-region :	Lisbon metropolitan area
District :	Setubal
Concelho :	Barreiro
Freguesia :	União das Freguesias de Barreiro e Lavradio
Coordinates :	38 ° 40 ′  N , 9 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 40 ′  N , 9 ° 4 ′  W
Postal code :	2830
politics
Website:	www.jf-barreiro.pt
Barreiro district
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Residents:	78,764 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	36.4 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	2164 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Barreiro Rua Miguel Bombarda 2830-355 Barreiro
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Carlos Humberto de Carvalho ( CDU )
Website:	www.cm-barreiro.pt

Barreiro [ bɐˈʁɐiɾu ] is a city ( Cidade ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal . 79,042 people live in the industrial city (as of June 30, 2011).

Barreiro

On September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Barreiro and Lavradio were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Barreiro e Lavradio . Barreiro is the seat of this newly formed community.

history

Presumably fishermen from the Algarve settled here for the first time . After the Reconquista , the place was re-established by the Order of St. Jacob of the Sword . In addition to fishing, salt production and agriculture were now practiced. In 1521 the place was elevated to a vila . With the arrival of the railroad in 1861 and the industrial operations of the Companhia União Fabril from 1896 , Barreiro saw significant growth. In 1984 the place was raised to a city ( Cidade ).

Culture

With the OUT.FEST, a festival of alternative rock music takes place here regularly. The tenth edition took place from October 8th to 12th, 2013. a. The Fall , Rhodri Davies and Lee Gamble .

administration

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Barreiro is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Setúbal district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 7507 inhabitants on an area of ​​36.4 km². The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Moita , Palmela , Setúbal , Sesimbra , Seixal and Lisbon (separated by the Tagus Delta ).

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

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

Barreiro district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Alto do Seixalinho, Santo André e Verderena	41,760	7.18	5,817	150409
Barreiro e Lavradio	21,877	7.74	2,828	150410
Palhais e Coina	3,591	13.78	261	150411
Santo António da Charneca	11,536	7.70	1,499	150407
Barreiro district	78,764	36.40	2.164	1504

Population development

Population in Barreiro County (1801–2011)
year	1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
Residents	2425	3384	7738	21,030	35,088	88.052	85,768	79.012	78,764

Municipal holiday

• June 28th

Town twinning

•  Bulgaria : Stara Sagora (since 1976)
•  Poland : Łódź (since 1996)

sons and daughters of the town

• Henrique Galvão (1895–1970), military man and author, member of the opposition, main actor in the Santa Maria affair
• Augusto Cabrita (1923–1993), photographer and director
• Fernando Farinha (1928–1988), fado singer
• José Augusto (born 1937), football player
• Fernando Chalana (* 1959) football player
• Eduardo Cabrita (* 1961), lawyer and politician
• Bruno Castanheira (1977-2014), racing cyclist
• Hugo Cunha (1977-2005), football player
• João Cancelo (* 1994), football player
• Bruno Martins Indi (* 1992), soccer player
• Eduardo Quaresma (* 2002), football player

The former national soccer goalkeeper Manuel Bento died here in 2007.

See also

• Barreiro Train Station, the Barreiro train station

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Barreiro at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website ( Memento of May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• RailFanEurope.net shows pictures of the Barreiro train station

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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on August 26, 2013
6. ↑ Article about the festival on www.verportugal.net , accessed on October 7, 2013
7. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
8. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on August 26, 2013