Linhares (Celorico da Beira)

Linhares
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Beiras e Serra da Estrela
District :	Guarda
Concelho :	Celorico da Beira
Coordinates :	40 ° 32 ′  N , 7 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 32 ′  N , 7 ° 28 ′  W
Residents:	259 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	15.71 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6360-080
politics
Mayor :	Paulo Sérgio Silva Mimoso
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Linhares Rua Direita 6360-080 Linhares
Website:	www.linharesdabeira.net

Linhares is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Celorico da Beira . It has 259 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). Linhares is one of the twelve historic villages, the Aldeias Históricas .

View from the castle on Linhares

geography

Located at about 800 meters above sea level on the edge of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park , the place is about 15 km from the district town of Celorico da Beira.

history

Presumably Celtiberian Turduls founded the place in the 6th century BC. In the Visigoths it was called Lenio or Leniobriga and was a bishopric. After being in Arab possession for a long time , King Alfonso III conquered . in the year 900 Linhares, which was then recaptured by the Arabs. It was only Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , who finally took the place and gave it his first town charter ( Foral ) in 1169 . Already known as Linhares , from the Linho (English: linen ) grown and processed in large numbers here , the area was attacked several times by the Kingdom of León , but without ever being able to be permanently conquered. In view of the continuing risk of invasion, King D Dinis expanded the fortress considerably until 1291. The reason was the strategically important location of the place against threatening invasions in the valley of the Mondego , through which also trade routes ran between Castile and Porto and Lisbon , but also routes of the pilgrims of St. James along the old Roman roads.

In 1510 King Manuel I renewed the town charter . In 1576, the Santa Casa de Misericórdia hospital was set up in the former pilgrims' hostel , and the place also flourished in cultural terms. So worked here u. a. Grão Vasco and the Flemish painter Frei Carlos . After the Restoration War and the country's independence in 1640, the importance of the place decreased. Linhares, as one of the few places in the region, retained the tradition of communal gatherings inherited from the Lusitanians as part of local self-government and commons .

To 1855 was Linhares headquarters of an independent circle to include since the county of Celorico da Beiro and its status as Vila losing (small town). The place continued to lose importance and was increasingly forgotten until it became known among friends of paragliding in the 1980s . In 1994, thanks to its historical importance and its diverse and well-preserved buildings, the place received a qualification as Aldeia Histórica (German: historical village), and in 1998 it was included in the newly created program of the Aldeias Históricas de Portugal . Since then, tourism has gained in importance, not focusing on mass tourism , but on nature tourism (hiking, paragliding, etc.) and rural tourism . So which maintains Inatel here a house with 26 rooms.

In 2011, Jancis Robinson , the well-known British wine critic , visited the place and described it as mystical .

View from the castle

Culture, sports and sights

Among its 28 listed buildings are a number of mansions , fountains, churches and earlier public buildings, mainly from the 16th century and some with Manueline windows. In addition to buildings of Jewish life in the village, the remains of the Roman road, the Romanesque - Gothic castle complex from the 12th century, and the 11th century parish church (Igreja Paroquial) Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção , which after shows various extensions Romanesque, Mannerist and Baroque elements, and in its interior contains wall paintings and gilded ( Talha Dorada ) altarpieces and coffered ceilings .

At the Miradouro Virtual (German: virtual lookout point) you can call up not only the view, but also a virtual city tour and films and texts. Photos with virtual historical background projections can be taken on the photomaton .

There is a paragliding simulator and a paragliding school. International paragliding events also take place here, such as the Paragliding World Cup Portugal 2010 .

A tourist office is located in the fortress tower. Various hiking and cycling trails are laid out in the municipality.

Web links

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

• Official website
• Website of the Aldeias Históricas , with information on Linhares (Portuguese, Spanish, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ www.linharesdabeira.net ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 14, 2012. 
4. ↑ Susana Falhas: Aldeias Históricas de Portugal. 1st edition. Olho de Turista, Mêda 2010, ISBN 978-989-96743-0-1 , p. 31ff.
5. ^ Margarida Magalhães Ramalho: Aldeias Históricas. 1st edition. Edições Inapa, Lisbon 2006, ISBN 972-797-097-4 , pp. 88f.
6. ↑ www.jancisrobinson.com , accessed November 14, 2012.
7. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on November 14, 2012.
8. ↑ ditto
9. ↑ ditto
10. ↑ Trailer of the Paragliding World Cup Portugal 2010 on YouTube