Casais (Lousada)

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Casais
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Casais (Portugal)
Casais
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Tâmega e Sousa
District : postage
Concelho : Lousada
Coordinates : 41 ° 16 ′  N , 8 ° 18 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 16 ′  N , 8 ° 18 ′  W
Residents: 1409 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 2.46 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 573 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4620-091
politics
Mayor : Manuel Joaquim da Mota e Sousa ( PSD )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Casais
Urbanização Covilhô, n.º 16
4620-091 Casais

Casais is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district ( concelho ) of Lousada . 1409 inhabitants live in it (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The current place was probably created in the course of the repopulation after the Reconquista . In the royal surveys of 1258 , Casais was already run as a separate municipality.

Culture and sights

The single-nave, Mannerist - Baroque parish church Igreja Paroquial de Casais ( also Igreja de São Paio after its patron saint ) dates from the 17th century.

Other monuments in the municipality are two chapels and the Quinta da Tapada estate , with mansions and a chapel.

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. ↑ www.monumentos.pt under Cronologia , accessed on August 22, 2013
  4. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on August 22, 2013
  5. ↑ ditto