Carcavelos
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| Region : | Lisboa | |||||
| Sub-region : | Lisbon metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | Lisbon | |||||
| Concelho : | Cascais | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Carcavelos e Parede | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 41 ′ N , 9 ° 20 ′ W | |||||
| Postal code : | 2775 | |||||
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| Website: | www.jf-carcavelos.pt | |||||
Carcavelos (Portuguese pronunciation: kɐɾkɐˈvɛluʃ ) was a Portuguese municipality west of the capital Lisbon until 2013 . The patron saint of the community is Nossa Senhora dos Remédios ( Portuguese for: Our Lady of Salvation).
The place is known for the Carcavelos wine .
On September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Carcavelos and Parede were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Carcavelos e Parede . Carcavelos is the seat of this newly formed municipality.
history
Carcavelos was run as a small town ( Vila ) until the neighboring village of Oeiras was raised in 1760 . Then the place was part of the district of Oeiras until 1898, since 1898 the municipality has belonged to Cascais.
It lost the title of Vila , although the village as the seat of the municipality was already densely populated. Today there are only two vilas in the Cascais district: Cascais and Parede .
In 1870, the first two submarine cables on the telegraph line to Porthcurno created an important information link for the British Empire .
The name of the old and well-known quality liqueur wine , the Vinho de Carcavelos (a Vinho generoso ), is derived from the municipality whose região demarcada (dt .: demarcation region ) is the smallest in Portugal and next to the first demarcated area in the world, the Alto Douro , one of the oldest in the world.
Due to its beach, which is one of the largest in the area, the place is one of the most frequented places by the Linha de Cascais . This is said to have increased the risk of petty crime in recent years. An example of this is above all the "arrastão" (German: trawl , a robbery of around 500 members of youth gangs) on the beach of the community that occurred in 2005, reminiscent of similar attacks on the Copacabana (Brazil). The attack, which was also widespread in the international press, later turned out to be a false report. Young people of African, Brazilian and Eastern European origins are said to have caused unrest on the beach, but there were no further fights when the police officers who were summoned and no thefts or robberies were reported to the officers.
Buildings
- Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios Renaissance Mannerist style church
- Fonte de São João or Cantinho de São João
administration
Carcavelos is a place and a former municipality ( freguesia ) of the district ( concelho ) of Cascais in the district of Lisbon . On 4.5. km² live 23,028 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The population density is 5106 inhabitants per km².
The following localities are in the municipality:
- Arneiro
- Carcavelos
- Junqueiro
- Quinta dos Lombos - Sul and Norte
- Quinta da Alagoa
- São Miguel das Encostas
- Sassoeiros
- Rebelva (partially)
- Quinta de S. Gonçalo
leisure
- Praia de Carcavelos, known for bodyboarding and surfing .
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Carcavelos at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Information on Carcavelos (pt.), At carcavelos.com, accessed April 2, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014.
- ^ History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. atlantic-cable.com, accessed April 2, 2011 .
- ↑ CARCAVELOS. (No longer available online.) Weinkenner.de, archived from the original on September 17, 2011 ; Retrieved April 2, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Panic on the beaches of Portugal. stern.de, June 11, 2005, accessed April 2, 2011 .
- ↑ PSP nega "arrastão" na praia de Carcavelos [The police deny trawl-like raids on Carcavelos beach]. (No longer available online.) Publico.pt, July 19, 2005, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 26, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
