Ferragudo
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Algarve | |||||
| Sub-region : | Algarve | |||||
| District : | Faro | |||||
| Concelho : | Lagoa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 7 ′ N , 8 ° 31 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 1973 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 5.41 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 365 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Height: | 0 m | |||||
| Postal code : | 8400 | |||||
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| Mayor : | Luis Filipe dos Santos Alberto ( PS ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Ferragudo Rua do Regato, nº 9 8400 231 Ferragudo |
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| Website: | www.f-ferragudo.pt | |||||
Ferragudo is a small town and municipality in the Algarve in southern Portugal .
geography
Facing the open sea and facing the city of Portimão in the estuary of the Arade River, the houses of the old fishing village crowd up the hill.
history
Finds prove the settlement in prehistoric times, later by Phoenicians , Cartagians and Romans . Since there are no secure documents of a settlement in the Moorish times, the first records of the present-day place date from the 14th century, in which there are reports of newly settled fishermen.
The bishop of Silves had the castle built between 1502 and 1537 . In the 18th century, the village, which had grown through fishing and agriculture, was detached from the municipality of Estômbar and in 1749 declared a municipality of its own.
On June 30, 1999, the place was raised to a small town ( Vila ).
administration
Ferragudo is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Lagoa in the Faro district . 1973 residents live here on an area of 5 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
The following places and districts belong to the municipality of Ferragudo:
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economy
Ferragudo was traditionally a fishing village. At the beginning of the 20th century, the place experienced an upswing due to settled fish canning factories. Over the years these became more and more unprofitable due to a lack of further development and increasingly closed. Since the 1970s, a renewed upswing set in with the rise of mass tourism . The place now lives mainly from tourism and the employment of many of its residents in nearby Portimão .
traffic
Long-distance transport
Ferragudo is a stop on the Linha do Algarve railway line from Lagos to Vila Real de Santo António .
The district town of Lagoa, 8 km away, is the next stop on the Rede Expressos national bus network .
The town is linked to the motorway network via Lagoa and its connection to the A22 .
Local transport
The public transport in the municipality is through local and regional bus lines of the private bus operator Eva Transportes operated. Ferragudo is connected to Portimão and some beaches via its line 111 (summer) and 112 (winter).
sons and daughters of the town
- Félix Mourinho (1938–2017), football goalkeeper and coach, father of the famous coach José Mourinho
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Ferragudo (Lagoa) at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Side of the municipality in the district of Lagoa
- Official website of the municipality
- Profile Ferragudos in the Mapas de Portugal
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
- ↑ Overview of the local Eva Transportes bus routes (English and Portuguese), accessed on December 31, 2016
