Lapa dos Dinheiros

Lapa dos Dinheiros
Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Beiras e Serra da Estrela
District :	Guarda
Concelho :	Seia
Coordinates :	40 ° 23 ′ N , 7 ° 43 ′ W Coordinates: 40 ° 23 ′ N , 7 ° 43 ′ W
Residents:	294 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	7.57 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6270-651
politics
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Lapa dos Dinheiros ; Rua Centro Cultural, nº 1 ; 6270-651 Lapa dos Dinheiros
Website:	www.lapadosdinheiros.pt

Lapa dos Dinheiros is a locality and former municipality in Portugal .

History and place names

Settlement of the area has been documented since the Castro culture . The present-day village was probably only created in the course of the settlement policy after the Reconquista and was known as Lapas ( port. , Dt. Roughly: rock bulges). The place name is traced back to King D. Dinis (1261-1325). He is said to have been entertained here in abundance by the local population while passing through. When asked how they managed to do this, they are said to have replied “from our funds”. As a result, the king is said to have renamed the place "Lapa dos Dinheiros" ( Lapa of the money ).

The independent municipality of Lapa dos Dinheiros was created in 1988, when it was separated from the municipality of São Romão . With the territorial reform of 2013, both were dissolved and merged in the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Seia, São Romão e Lapa dos Dinheiros .

administration

Lapa dos Dinheiros has been an independent municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Seia , in the Guarda district , since 1988 . On June 30, 2011 the community had 294 inhabitants on an area of 7.6 km².

The community consisted only of the village of Lapa dos Dinheiros.

As part of the administrative reorganization in Portugal , the municipality was dissolved on September 29, 2013 and merged with Seia and São Romão to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Seia, São Romão e Lapa dos Dinheiros .

The official seat was the district town of Seia, while the municipal administration resides mainly in São Romão. The former municipal administration in Lapa dos Dinheiros continues to exist as the citizens' office of the new municipal administration.

Web links

Commons : Lapa dos Dinheiros - collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the former municipality of Lapa dos Dinheiros
Portrait of Lapa dos Dinheiros on the Seia County Administration 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
↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, ISBN 978-9724617305 , pp. 139f.
↑ Legal text (Portuguese; PDF access 2.4 MB), accessed on March 7, 2015
↑ Information on the municipality of Seia, São Romão e Lapa dos Dinheiros on the website of the district administration, accessed on March 7, 2015

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_PT_091229-1] www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[Fläche-2] Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

[3] João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, ISBN 978-9724617305 , pp. 139f.

[4] Legal text (Portuguese; PDF access 2.4 MB), accessed on March 7, 2015

[5] Information on the municipality of Seia, São Romão e Lapa dos Dinheiros on the website of the district administration, accessed on March 7, 2015