Belas (Portugal)

Belas
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Lisboa
Sub-region :	Lisbon metropolitan area
District :	Lisbon
Concelho :	Sintra
Coordinates :	38 ° 46 ′  N , 9 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 46 ′  N , 9 ° 16 ′  W
Residents:	26,353 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	22.84 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	1154 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2605-021
politics
Mayor :	Guilherme Dias
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Belas Pç. 5 Outubro 14, 1º 2605-021 Belas
Website:	www.jf-belas.pt

Belas is a former municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Sintra . It has a population of 26,353 (as of June 30, 2011). On September 29, 2013, Belas and Queluz merged to form the new community União das Freguesias de Queluz e Belas .

The aqueduct Aqueduto das Águas Livres leading to Lisbon begins in Belas.

In the center of the village

history

Antas and other finds prove a settlement back to the Paleolithic . The Romans maintained a settlement here. A dam to supply water to Olisipos (now Lisbon ) has been preserved from this period. After it became part of the Visigoth Empire , the Moors took Belas around 711 .

During the Reconquista , Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , conquered the area. He gave Belas as a thank you for his services in the successful siege of Lisbon in 1147 to Robert Lacorne. In the following centuries, noble families built various mansions here. The Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused extensive damage in Belas.

At the Roman dam (Portuguese Barragem romana )

Belas was the seat of an independent district until 1855 , and has since belonged to the Sintra district.

Sons and daughters

• Emanuel Herigoyen (1746–1817), important architect, particularly in Bavaria
• Tomás de Sousa Rosa (1844–1918), military, colonial administrator, diplomat and politician
• João Apolinário (1924–1988), writer and journalist

literature

• Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 p. 141

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. ↑ Diário da República, 1st series - N.º 19 - 28 de janeiro de 2013 . (pdf) Diário da República eletrónico, accessed on January 6, 2018 (Portuguese). 
4. ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on November 2, 2013