Estoi

Estoi
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Algarve
Sub-region :	Algarve
District :	Faro
Concelho :	Faro
Freguesia :	União das Freguesias de Conceição e Estoi
Coordinates :	37 ° 6 ′  N , 7 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 6 ′  N , 7 ° 54 ′  W
Postal code :	8005-454
politics
Website:	www.jf-estoi.pt

The Estoi Palace, built in the Rococo style in the mid-19th century

Estoi is a place and a former municipality in the Algarve in southern Portugal . The local rococo palace with its gardens is particularly well-known .

history

In the Roman ruins of Milreu

Finds document a number of local settlements from the Copper Age to the Turdetans , who also traded here with Phoenicians , Greeks and Carthaginians .

The Roman ruins at Milreu show the importance of the place during the later Roman period.

In 631 AD, Ossónoba, today's Estoi, became part of the Visigothic Empire until the conquest by the Arabs in 711. It remained part of the Arab al-Andalus until the conquest of Faro in 1249 at the end of the Christian Reconquista in Portugal.

In the 16th century, Estoi became an independent municipality.

In 1897, D. Carlos I , a Portuguese king, visited Estoi for the first time. He came to Faro on the newly built Linha do Algarve railway and visited Estoi and the Roman ruins of Milreu.

administration

Population development in the municipality of Estoi (1864–2011)

Estoi was the seat of a community of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( Concelho ) of Faro in the Faro district . The community had 3640 inhabitants on an area of ​​46.59 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following places belonged to the territory of the municipality of Estoi:

Alcaria Alcaria Branca Alcaria Cova Alface Areia

Ariolus Arjona Azinhal e Amendoeira Azinheiro Barranco de Sao Miguel

Cancela Cerro do Lobo Cerro Manuel Viegas Coiro da Burra Estoi

Fialho Guilhim Lagos e Relvas Murta Poço de Guilhim

Porto Carro Sambada Vale da Rosa Vale de Mouro Vale Seixos

As part of the regional reform in Portugal on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Conceição and Estoi were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Conceição e Estoi .

Web links

Commons : Estoi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local government website
• Profile Estois in the Mapas de Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History Estois ( Memento of the original June 27, 2017 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the municipal administration website, accessed December 30, 2016 
2. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
3. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014