Estela

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Estela
coat of arms map
The coat of arms is still missing Situation map for Estela
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Porto metropolitan area
District : postage
Concelho : Póvoa de Varzim
Coordinates : 41 ° 27 ′  N , 8 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 27 ′  N , 8 ° 45 ′  W
Residents: 2307 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 11.54 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 200 inhabitants per km²
politics
Mayor : José Armandino Gomes Domingues ( PSD )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Estela
Rua Comendador Araújo, 199
4570-203 Estela
Website: www.freguesiadaestela.pt

Estela is a town and municipality in northern Portugal .

The place is known for its beaches and golf course as a vacation spot. Hotels and a campsite were created.

history

Dunes on the beach of Estela

The first document in which King D. Afonso Henriques referred to himself as King of the independent Kingdom of Portugal for the first time is the letter with which the regent gave the parishes of Estela to the monks of the monastery of S. Martinho de Tibães in Braga ( Sancta Maria de Stella ) and Vila Mendo ( Villam Menendi ) awards .

In the royal registers of 1220, the parish is recorded as Santa Maria de Estela or Sancta Maria de Stela .

Until the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , Amorim was a municipality in the district of Barcelos , to be affiliated with Vila do Conde in 1852 . Since 1878 the municipality belongs to Póvoa de Varzim.

In the second half of the 19th century, the place also benefited from the local boom, when the reclamation of part of the dunes around Póvoa de Varzim greatly expanded the agricultural area and enabled productive agriculture from now on. More recently, tourism has contributed to the development. The local dune beaches and the golf course in the municipality are particularly attractive.

administration

Estela is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Póvoa de Varzim in the district of Porto . It has an area of ​​11.5 km² and has 2307 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

The following localities are in the municipality:

  • Baldoia
  • Barros
  • Carrascos
  • Carregosa
  • Contriz
  • Estrada
  • Fontainha
  • Frinjo
  • Igreja
  • Outeiro
  • Pedrinha
  • Teso
  • Urzes
  • Rio Alto (no residents, only seasonal tourism)

Web links

Commons : Estela (Póvoa de Varzim)  - 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. ↑ Information on the municipality of Estela on the website of the Póvoa de Varzim district administration, accessed on February 19, 2016
  4. ↑ History of the Estela community ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 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. from the Estela Municipal Council website, accessed February 19, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freguesiadaestela.pt