Leça do Balio
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Porto metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | postage | |||||
| Concelho : | Matosinhos | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 13 ′ N , 8 ° 37 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 17,545 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 9.11 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 1926 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| politics | ||||||
| Mayor : | Francisco Silva Araújo | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Leça do Balio Largo do Mosteiro, s / nº 4465-703 Leça do Balio |
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| Website: | www.jf-balio.pt | |||||
Leça do Balio is a former parish in the Matosinhos County of the Porto District in Portugal . It has 17,545 inhabitants on an area of 9.1 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
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history
In the area around the place, especially in Custóias there by discovered dolmens evidence of colonization of the area during the Neolithic period before about 5000 years ago, and an Iron Age settlement near the village of Sao Sebastiao. Finds from the 1st century attest to the Roman Villa Decio, from which the name Leça can be derived, and a Iuppiter temple , where the Mosteiro de Leça do Balio (English Monastery of Leça do Balio) is today.
In 1999 the place was renamed from Leça do Bailio to Leça do Balio and on June 30 of the same year raised to a small town ( Vila ).
On September 29, 2013, the municipality of Leça do Balio merged with the municipalities of Custóias and Guifões to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Custóias, Leça do Balio e Guifões as part of the regional reform in Portugal . The headquarters of the new community became Custóias.
Buildings
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economy
Leça do Balio is the headquarters of the União Cervejeira SA (Unicer) brewery.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Manuel da Silva Martins (1927–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Setúbal
- Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar (* 1973), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Lisbon
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Leça do Balio at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the local government
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b origin of the name . jf-balio.pt. Archived from the original on January 5, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
- ^ History of the place . jf-balio.pt. Archived from the original on May 31, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on May 31, 2014
- ↑ Mosteiro de Leça do Balio . jf-balio.pt. Archived from the original on May 31, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
