Castelo Rodrigo
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Beiras e Serra da Estrela | |||||
| District : | Guarda | |||||
| Concelho : | Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 53 ′ N , 6 ° 58 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 517 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 32.94 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 16 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 6440 | |||||
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| Mayor : | Fernando Augusto Rodrigues | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Castelo Rodrigo Rua Relógio; 6440-031 Castelo Rodrigo 6440 Castelo Rodrigo |
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| Website: | www.cm-fcr.pt/concelho/freguesias/Paginas/CasteloRodrigo.aspx | |||||
Castelo Rodrigo is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo . 517 inhabitants live in it (as of June 30, 2011). Castelo Rodrigo is one of the twelve historic villages, the Aldeias Históricas de Portugal .
geography
Castelo Rodrigo is 820 meters above sea level. The place is 3 km from the district capital Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, and about 60 km from the district capital Guarda .
history
As early as 500 BC The place was inhabited by Celtiberian Turdulians and later Lusitanians . Their hill fort (Portuguese: Castro) was captured and razed by the Romans . Few traces have survived from its time as part of the Visigoth Empire . The Arabs built a fortress here again, which Ferdinand I (León) conquered from them for the first time in 1039. In 1170 Portugal's first king, D. Afonso Henriques , conquered the place and left the Convento de Stª there. Mª. de Aguiar build. After a renewed invasion of the Moors , King D.Sancho was able to finally conquer the place. In 1209 the place received city rights (Foral) for the first time. Castelo Rodrigo has been Portuguese for good since the Treaty of Alcañices in 1297. Under the kings D.Dinis , D.fernando I. and D.João I was further expanded the fortress, in the course of various disputes with the Kingdom of Castile . King Manuel I had the decaying fortress rebuilt in 1500 and again granted the place city rights in 1508.
In the restoration war to regain the independence of Portugal from 1640 Castelo Rodrigo was a significant strategic defense post. On July 7, 1664, the Portuguese army under Pedro Jacques de Magalhães defeated the Spanish army under the Duke of Ossuna . Until the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, the area around Castelo Rodrigo remained a scene of disputes.
In the Seven Years' War Castelo Rodrigo was destroyed 1,762th After the further destruction and looting in 1810, during the Napoleonic invasions, all the remaining families except for a few residents left the place, and S. Vicente da Figueira, not far below the high-lying Castelo Rodrigo, gained further importance in the course. In 1836 the growing community of S. Vicente became an independent district (concelho) and, in consideration of the historical place Castelo Rodrigo, was renamed Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo.
Since 1994 Castelo Rodrigo has been one of the particularly well-preserved historical villages of the Aldeias Históricas , and thus enjoys special protection regulations and subsidies.
Monuments
The most famous building in the area is the Castelo Rodrigo castle .
In the village there are 14 listed buildings, including the abbey church Igreja e Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Aguiar from the 12th century, with Manueline provided window elements houses from the early 16th century, the cistern ( Cisterna ) from the 14th century, the stake (Pelourinho) from the 15th century, and the baroque wall fountain Chafariz da Casqueira from the 18th century.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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
- ↑ www.cm-fcr.pt ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed November 8, 2012
- ↑ www.patrimonio-turismo.com ( 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. , accessed November 8, 2012
- ^ Margarida Magalhães Ramalho: Aldeias Históricas. 1st edition, Edições Inapa, Lisbon 2006, pp. 59ff, ISBN 972-797-097-4
- ↑ Susana Falhas, Henrique Almeida: Historic villages of Portugal. , 1st edition, Olho de Turista, Mêda 2010, p. 111ff, ISBN 978-989-967430-1
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on November 8, 2012
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