Marialva (Mêda)
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Beiras e Serra da Estrela | |||||
| District : | Guarda | |||||
| Concelho : | Mêda | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 54 ′ N , 7 ° 14 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 255 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 19.21 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 13 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| politics | ||||||
| Mayor : | Luis Miguel Pires Marinho | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Marialva Largo do Toural 6430-081 Marialva |
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| Website: | www.marialva.pt | |||||
Marialva is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Mêda . 255 inhabitants live in it (as of June 30, 2011). The place is one of the historic villages, the Aldeias Históricas de Portugal .
geography
The place is seven kilometers south of the district town of Mêda and about 60 km north of the district capital Guarda .
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history
Already in the 6th century BC Settled by Celtiberian Turdulas as Aravos , the place became an important administrative city under the Romans , with the name Civitas Aravorum . Occupied by the Moors and named after the mallow trees that often occur here , Ferdinand I (León) conquered the place in 1063 . Since then known as Marialba and later Marialva , it changed hands several times until Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , conquered the place with the help of the Knights Templar from 1157 to 1169 , re-fortified and settled it at an altitude of 580 meters, and in 1179 gave it its first town rights ( Foral ) awarded. After the Treaty of Alcañices in 1297, areas of interest became more distant and the place became less important. King D Dinis , however, had granted market rights to Marialva in 1286, as a result of which the place did not completely disappear, but rather continued to bind residents, including increasingly Jews who had fled here . In 1512 the place received renewed city rights by King Manuel I.
In 1440, King D.Afonso V created the title of Conde (German: Count) of Marialva, who was upgraded to Marquês (German: Margrave) in the 17th century by D.Afonso VI. , for António Luís de Menezes , the third Count of Cantanhede and now also the first Margrave of Marialva. The fourth Margrave of Marialva, Pedro José de Alcântara de Meneses Noronha Coutinho (1713–1799), was an innovator in Portuguese bullfighting who is admired to this day .
Until 1855, Marialva was the seat of its own district ( concelho ), then to the district of Vila Nova de Foz Côa , and since 1872 to the district of Mêda. The historical place within the castle walls, however, was increasingly abandoned by its inhabitants, who settled in the valley below the castle walls.
In 1998, Marialva became one of the villages in the newly created program to promote historically relevant villages with preserved historical buildings, the Aldeias Históricas de Portugal , which is also intended to counter the migration tendencies in the structurally weak rural areas.
Culture, sports and sights
Among its numerous architectural monuments are the Roman dam and the Roman archaeological sites, and the castle from the 12th century, in addition to a number of churches, fountains and earlier public buildings.
In the community there are facilities of the rural tourism , a tennis court, swimming pools and an adjacent thermal bath .
Web links
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
- ↑ Susana Falhas, Henrique Almeida: Historic villages of Portugal. 1st edition, Olho de Turista, Mêda 2010, ISBN 978-989-96743-0-1 , pp. 85 ff.
- ↑ www.aldeiashistoricasdeportugal.com/ (under Aldeias / Marialva ), accessed on November 20, 2012
- ^ Margarida Magalhães Ramalho: Aldeias Históricas. 1st edition, Edições Inapa, Lisbon 2006, ISBN 972-797-097-4 , pp. 95 ff.
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on November 20, 2012
- ↑ ditto
