Faro
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Algarve | |||||
Sub-region : | Algarve | |||||
District : | Faro | |||||
Concelho : | Faro | |||||
Coordinates : | 37 ° 1 ′ N , 7 ° 56 ′ W | |||||
Residents: | 65,019 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 202.57 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 321 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Height: | 6 m | |||||
Postal code : | 8000-xxx | |||||
Faro district | ||||||
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Residents: | 65,019 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 202.57 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 321 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Number of municipalities : | 4th | |||||
administration | ||||||
Administration address: | Município de Faro Rua do Município 8000-398 Faro |
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President of the Câmara Municipal: | Rogério Bacalhau ( PSD ) | |||||
Website: | www.cm-faro.pt |
Faro is a port city with approx. 50,000 inhabitants (approx. 70,000 inhabitants in the district) on the southern tip of Portugal in the Algarve region . The city has an international airport and two universities. Faro is the administrative center of the Algarve and an important port protected by a lagoon that is now a nature reserve .
history
From an older Phoenician settlement, which was also used by the Greeks for a time, the oppidum Ossonoba emerged in Roman times . Due to its port and the proximity to rich fishing grounds, it became an important trading center for wine, oil and fish processing products , especially the garum , which is coveted throughout the ancient world , but also cured fish. Ossonoba was already in the 1st century BC. By Strabo and in the 1st century AD by Pliny in his natural history among the great oppida of the Iberian Peninsula . In the year 418 the Visigoths entered Faro victoriously and named the city "Santa Maria". At the end of the 6th century, Faro briefly belonged to the eastern Roman province of Spania . In the year 713 the city was taken by the Arabs / Moors and renamed “al-Uqshunuba” or “Shantamariyyat al-Gharb”. The place name Hárune , from which the current name is derived, has also been passed down. Bakr Ben Yahia founded a dynasty that ruled from Faro, which he fortified, from 875 to 931 over a principality in the Algarve . In 1217, during the Reconquista , crusaders sacked the city. After they cut Faro off from its hinterland, they conquered under the Portuguese King Afonso III. the city in 1249. Thanks to the printing house of the Jewish community, the first books printed in Portugal appeared in Faro in the 15th century. Faro received city rights only in 1540 ; In 1577 the bishopric was moved from Silves to Faro . Robert Devereux , the Earl of Essex, had the city plundered and pillaged by his 3,000-strong troops during his campaign against the Spanish Cadiz in July 1596. Only the churches of Misericórdia and São Pedro remained intact. The valuable bishop's library ended up as looted art in Oxford . In 1722 and 1755, earthquakes in the Algarve also devastated Faro. As a result of the last earthquake in 1756, the seat of government of the Kingdom of Algarve was moved from Lagos to Faro, which was less destroyed. In 1808, Napoleonic troops took Faro under the command of General Junot ; however, a riot led to their expulsion. Faro has had its own university since 1979.
Attractions
- The old town with its winding streets consists of houses from the 17th and 18th centuries, the poor structure of which, however, in many cases led to the residents moving out. Only the ground floor of many houses is still used for business purposes.
- Through the Arco da Vila or the Arco do Repousado one arrives at the walled old town, the Vila Adentro , at the highest point of which is the Sé cathedral from the 13th / 18th century. Century on Largo da Sé as well as the elongated building of the former seminary and the town hall.
- The former monastery of Nossa Senhora da Assunção from the 16th century has a beautiful Renaissance - cloister , serving since 1973 as an archaeological museum where u. a. Exhibits from the nearby Roman Milreu , but also azulejos and sacred art and painting are shown.
- Sights include the Baroque Carmelite Church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo from the 18th century, whose gruesome attraction is the Capela dos Ossos ossuary, which is decorated with skulls and bones .
- In the building of the harbor master is the Museu Marítimo , a maritime museum in which historical models of ships and fishing methods of the Algarve are shown.
- The regional ethnographic museum is housed in the building of the district administration . Together with photos of the living and living conditions, handicraft objects, traditional costumes and detailed models from the entire Algarve are brought together here.
Public facilities
Transport infrastructure
- Faro is the Algarve's international airport, Faro Airport .
- Sailing marina Vilamoura , 15 km west of the airport
- Faros station on the Linha do Algarve railway line , the terminus of the Alfa Pendular express trains
- Faro is part of the Rede Expressos national bus network; the bus station (Terminal Rodoviaria) is on the edge of the old town near the train station.
- Junction 13 and 14 of the A22 motorway
Leisure and sports facilities
- The Estádio Algarve , where several matches of the 2004 European Football Championship took place and, since 1994, the Algarve Cup . The SC Farense , founded in 1910 and located in the Estádio de São Luís in Faro, and the Louletano Desportos Clube from Loulé occasionally played games here. It was also the temporary home stadium of the Gibraltar national team from 2013 to 2017 .
- The Pista de Atletismo de Faro professional athletics facility
- The swimming pools Piscinas Municipais de Faro , with indoor pools and outdoor facilities
- The Skate Parque de Faro is a skate park with learning, pool and street zones (BMX, skateboards and inline skates)
- The Centro Náutico da Praia de Faro (dt .: boat center of the beach of Faro) is located in the protected lagoon landscape Parque Natural da Ria Formosa and offers various water sports.
There are also a large number of sports fields and multifunctional halls in the communities. The district administration regularly offers guided hikes on the hiking trails in the district (project name Faro a Andar , German about: Faro erlauf).
administration
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Faro is the capital of the Faro district and the seat of a district of the same name (Portuguese: concelho ). The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): São Brás de Alportel , Olhão , Loulé . In the south lies the Atlantic .
With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from six to four.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in Faro County:
local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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Conceição e Estoi | 8,176 | 68.40 | 120 | 080507 |
Montenegro | 8,149 | 21.20 | 384 | 080506 |
Santa Bárbara de Nexe | 4.116 | 38.22 | 108 | 080503 |
Faro (Sé e São Pedro) | 44,578 | 74.75 | 596 | 080508 |
Faro district | 65,019 | 202.57 | 321 | 0805 |
The actual urban area is the Freguesia Faro (Sé e São Pedro) .
Population development
Population in Faro County (1801–2011) | ||||||||
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1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
23,881 | 18,733 | 34,104 | 28,456 | 35,651 | 45.109 | 50,761 | 58.051 | 64,560 |
Municipal holiday
- 7th of September
Town twinning
Sister cities of Faro are:
- : Tangier , Morocco, (since 1985)
- : Bolama , Guinea-Bissau, (since 1988)
- : Huelva , Spain, (since 1994)
- : Praia , Cape Verde, (since 1997)
- : Príncipe , São Tomé and Príncipe, (since 2008)
- : Hayward (California) , USA (since 1978)
- : Maxixe , Mozambique, (since 2000)
- : Haikou , People's Republic of China, (since 2008)
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Faro
Source: wetterkontor.de
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sons and daughters of the town
- João Vaz Corte-Real (1429–1496), knight and navigator
- Diogo Tavares de Ataíde (1711–1765), architect and sculptor
- Raimundo José da Cunha Matos (1776–1839), military, Portuguese-Brazilian historian
- Manuel José de Bivar Gomes da Costa Weinholtz (1795-1859), military and politician, father of Jerónimo Augusto de Bivar Gomes da Costa
- Guilherme Centazzi (1808–1875), doctor and writer
- Jerónimo Augusto de Bivar Gomes da Costa (1833–1889), doctor and local politician, father of Manuel de Bivar Gomes da Costa Weinholtz
- Sebastião Cústodio de Sousa Teles (1847–1921), military, head of government 1909
- José de Abreu Machado Ortigão (1854–1939), military and politician
- Manuel de Bivar Gomes da Costa Weinholtz (1861–1901), agricultural engineer and local politician
- Nascimento Fernandes (1881–1955), actor
- Raul Pires Ferreira Chaves (1889–1967), engineer and inventor
- Maria Alexandrina Pires Ferreira Chaves (1892–1979), painter
- António Assis Esperança (1892–1975), journalist and writer
- José Ferreiro (1895–1967), accordion player and composer
- Maria Clementina Sá (1897–1947), actress
- Adelino da Palma Carlos (1905–1992), lawyer and politician, first prime minister after the 1974 Carnation Revolution
- José António Pinheiro e Rosa (1908–1995), spiritual author
- Tavares Belo (1911–1993), composer and conductor
- José Pedro Machado (1914–2005), historian, philologist, bibliographer, Arabist
- Joaquim da Luz Cunha (* 1914), General, Minister of War in the Estado Novo regime
- José Ferreiro Júnior (1915–1964), accordionist in Brazil, son of José Ferreiro
- Leão Penedo (1916–1976), screenwriter and writer
- Leonel Duarte Neves (1921–1996), meteorologist and writer
- António Ramos Rosa (1924–2013), poet, essayist, translator and illustrator
- Fernando de Pádua (* 1927), multiple award-winning surgeon and university professor
- Nuno Krus Abecasis (1929–1999), politician
- José Maria Nunes (1930–2010), Spanish-Portuguese director and author
- Alina Vaz (* 1936), actress
- Paula Ribas (* 1936), singer
- Filipe Ferrer (1936–2007), actor and theater and television director
- Manuel Baptista (* 1936), painter, plastic artist
- Gastão Cruz (* 1941), poet, Germanist, translator, literary and theater critic
- Gabriela Rocha Martins (* 1948), librarian, journalist and writer, especially poet
- Carlos Quintas (* 1951), singer
- Manuel Balela (* 1956), international soccer coach
- Paulo Querido (* 1960), journalist and author, internet entrepreneur
- Ezequiel Canário (* 1960), athlete
- Miguel Szymanski (* 1966), German-Portuguese journalist
- Miguel Alexandre (* 1968), German-Portuguese film director and screenwriter
- Irina Coelho (* 1981), racing cyclist
- Frederica Piedade (* 1982), tennis player
- Fábio Felício (* 1982), football player
- Ricardo Mestre (* 1983), racing cyclist
- Júlio Resende (* 1983?), Pianist
- João Cajuda (* 1984), national sports acrobatics champion 2001, actor, son of the international soccer coach Manuel Cajuda
- Rui Machado (* 1984), tennis player
gallery
Bone Chapel Capela dos Ossos .
Web links
- Faro city website
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
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses, Geminações de Cidades e Vilas , accessed on January 23, 2017