Cabeça
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| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Beiras e Serra da Estrela | |||||
| District : | Guarda | |||||
| Concelho : | Seia | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 19 ′ N , 7 ° 44 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 181 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 8.5 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 21 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 6270-021 | |||||
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| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Cabeça Av. Independência 6270-021 Cabeça |
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Cabeça (in earlier times also São Romão de Cabeça ) is a locality and former municipality in Portugal .
The slate village in the Serra da Estrela Mountains is known in Portugal as Aldeia Natal , as a Christmas village. It also became the first Aldeia LED in Portugal in 2011 , the first village to completely switch its lighting to environmentally friendly LED lighting .
history
During the medieval Reconquista , the village of Cabeça, located on a rock head, was the seat of an offshoot of the “ Knights of the Golden Spur ” ( Portuguese : Cavaleiros da Espora Dourada ).
On January 13th, 1800 it became a separate municipality, after being separated from the municipality of Loriga .
In the course of the regional reform in Portugal in 2013, the municipality of Cabeça was dissolved and merged with Vide .
administration
Cabeça was a community ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Seia , in the Guarda district . On June 30, 2011 the community had 181 inhabitants in an area of 8.5 km².
The municipality consisted only of the village of Cabeça.
As part of the administrative reorganization in Portugal , the municipality was dissolved on September 29, 2013 and merged with Vide to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Vide e Cabeça . The seat of the new municipality became Vide. The former municipal administration in Cabeça remained as a citizens' office.
Cabeça and its Christmas village Aldeia Natal
Since 2013, as the official Aldeia Natal ( Portuguese for Christmas Village), Cabeça has been attracting visitors every year from the end of November to the New Year (January 1st), initially until Epiphany (January 6th). Here, the village transformed by natural Christmas decorations and stalls selling local produce, local gastronomy and regional arts and crafts for the Christmas market . The village has committed itself to the principles of sustainability , regionality and tradition. For example, the Christmas decorations are made using only remnants from local tree cuttings, local agriculture and environmentally friendly LED light sources, and visitors are involved in activities.
The village focuses on nature and regional traditions and specialties, while maintaining a more contemplative Christmas season. In the Aldeia Natal there is no Santa Claus or similar stereotypical international Christmas symbols.
Sons and daughters of the church
- António de Almeida Santos (1926–2016), lawyer and politician, multiple minister and President of Parliament
Web links
- Information on Cabeça on the Seia County Council's website
- Pictures from Cabeça on Flickr
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
- ↑ TV report from April 2011 on Cabeça as Portugal's first Aldeia LED , recorded on YouTube , accessed on November 12, 2019
- ↑ Portrait of Cabeça on the Seia district administration website, accessed on March 7, 2015
- ↑ Legal text (Portuguese; PDF access 2.4 MB), accessed on March 7, 2015
- ↑ Cabeça, Aldeia Natal - Sustainable Christmas Festival , article on www.portugalconfidential.com, accessed on November 12, 2019
- ↑ Cabeça, Aldeia Natal , article of December 22, 2015 in the daily newspaper Público , accessed on November 12, 2019
- ↑ Aldeia Natal de Cabeça está ainda mais amiga do ambiente - “The Christmas village of Cabeça is becoming even more environmentally friendly” , article in the daily newspaper Público from December 15, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2019
- ↑ Seia volta a ter "Aldeia Natal" onde o Pai Natal nicht entra - "Seia has neither his Christmas village, in which Santa Claus has no access" , article of 5 December 2018 on the website of the public service broadcaster RTP , accessed on November 12, 2019