Mirandela

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Mirandela
coat of arms map
Mirandela Coat of Arms
Mirandela (Portugal)
Mirandela
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Terras de Trás-os-Montes
District : Bragança
Concelho : Mirandela
Coordinates : 41 ° 29 ′  N , 7 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 29 ′  N , 7 ° 11 ′  W
Residents: 11,852 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 32.45 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 365 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5370
politics
Mayor : José Manuel Lemos Pavão (PSD)
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Mirandela
Praça 5 Outubro
5370-284 Mirandela
Mirandela district
flag map
Flag of Mirandela Location of the Mirandela district
Residents: 23,850 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 658.95 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 30th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Mirandela
Praça do Município
5370-288 Mirandela
President of the Câmara Municipal: António Almor Branco ( PSD )
Website: www.cm-mirandela.pt

Mirandela is a municipality and city in the Bragança district in Portugal . The municipality covers 32.4 km² with 11,852 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The city of Mirandela has about 5700 inhabitants.

View of Mirandela and its medieval bridge over the Tua (with fountain)

geography

Mirandela is located on the Tua River on the edge of the highlands of Trás-os-Montes , about 60 km southwest of the district capital Bragança , in northeastern Portugal.

history

View of the old Roman bridge (today only a pedestrian bridge)

At least since the Bronze Age there was a settlement here, in the vicinity of which metal ores were mined (tin, copper, arsenic, gold). Celtiberians and Romans left traces in Mirandela, then called Caladunum . For the Romans in particular, the place was a heavily populated settlement and an important producer of agricultural goods. After the invasion of the Visigoths , today's district became part of the Laetera administrative district of the Suebi in the 6th century .

King D.Afonso III. gave Mirandela city ​​rights ( Foral ) in 1250 and raised the place to Vila (small town). King D Dinis confirmed the town charter in 1291 , which King Manuel I renewed in 1512 .

In 1984 Mirandela was promoted to Cidade (city).

Culture and sights

In the historic center of Mirandela

The local monuments include a number of historical public buildings, two medieval bridges, and various sacred buildings . Worth mentioning are the Mannerist palace of the Távoras from the 17th century, in which the city administration ( Câmara Municipal ) resides today , and the castle from the 13th century, of which the last of the three city gates is the most obvious remnant.

The municipal museum Museu Municipal Armindo Teixeira Lopes is dedicated to the city's most famous artist and is considered a major art museum in Portugal. On view are 460 paintings and sculptures by 286 artists from home and abroad, including Almada Negreiros , Artur Bual , Abel Manta , Domingos de Sequeira , João Hogan , and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva .

In addition to the municipal library ( Biblioteca Municipal ) and the Auditório Municipal (with cinema and concert hall), there are other cultural institutions with the ethnographic museum Museu Etnográfico de Suçães in the municipality of Suçães , and the curiosity museum Museu de Curiosidades do Romeu in the municipality of Romeu .

Various hiking trails lead into the surrounding area and some surrounding villages. Among other things, watermills and olive oil presses can be visited. Tickets are available from the Tourist Office ( Turismo ) next to Mirandela train station.

administration

The town hall in the historic Paços dos Távoras mansion

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Mirandela is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Vinhais , Macedo de Cavaleiros , Alfândega da Fé , Vila Flor , Carrazeda de Ansiães , Murça and Valpaços .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 37 to 30.

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Mirandela district:

Mirandela district
local community Population
(2011)
Area
km²
Density of
population / km²
LAU
code
Abambres 347 18.82 18th 040701
Abreiro 257 24.03 11 040702
Aguieiras 289 14.72 20th 040703
Alvites 237 17.81 13 040704
Avantos e Romeu 376 27.41 14th 040738
Avidagos, Navalho e Pereira 531 33.16 16 040739
Barcel, Marmelos e Valverde da Gestosa 415 48.74 9 040740
Bouça 261 12.99 20th 040708
Cabanelas 386 18.66 21st 040709
Caravelas 214 12.57 17th 040710
Carval sharks 1,299 22.04 59 040711
Cedães 338 25.44 13 040712
Cobro 205 12.31 17th 040713
Fradizela 234 12.77 18th 040714
Franco e Vila Boa 334 26.34 13 040741
Cheeky 929 18.54 50 040716
Freixeda e Vila Verde 170 21.23 8th 040742
Lamas de Orelhão 394 19.22 20th 040718
Mascarenhas 550 28.14 20th 040720
Mirandela 11,852 32.45 365 040721
Múrias 281 22.55 12 040722
Passages 423 18.39 23 040724
Sao Pedro Velho 329 23.63 14th 040727
São Salvador 223 14.21 16 040728
Suçães 574 36.20 16 040729
Torre de Dona Chama 1.105 27.68 40 040730
Vale de Asnes 271 21.42 13 040731
Vale de Gouvinhas 319 17.14 19th 040732
Vale de Salgueiro 424 15.17 28 040733
Vale de Telhas 283 15.17 19th 040734
Mirandela district 23,850 658.95 36 0407
View from the river to Mirandela

Population development

Population in Mirandela County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
5579 5180 20,789 23.007 29,912 28,879 25.209 25,819 23,850

Municipal holiday

  • 25. May

Town twinning

traffic

Roads, railways, airports

The national road IP4 (part of the European route 82 ) crosses the village, and the approximately 50 km long national road N213 leads from Mirandela to Chaves .

Since the partial closure of the Linha do Tua railway line in 2008, Mirandela is no longer connected to the national railway network. Mirandela is part of the Rede Expressos national bus network.

With the Mirandela airfield , the city has an airfield for sports and private aircraft.

The Metropolitano Ligeiro in Mirandela station

Local public transport

The Metropolitano Ligeiro de Mirandela (German: light light rail from Mirandela) is a municipal narrow-gauge railway with only six stops, based on the partially closed railway line Linha do Tua . The city of Mirandela also maintains two color-coded urban bus routes ( Linha Azul = Blue Line, Linha Vermelha = Red Line), which circulate on weekdays from around 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (different on weekends). Other, private bus routes offer regional connections.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

People who worked on site

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. http://codigopostal.ciberforma.pt/dir/empresa2.asp?emp=3615
  4. www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  5. http://www.igeo.pt/atlas/Cap2/Cap2d_p107_image.html
  6. www.verportugal.net , accessed February 10, 2013
  7. www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 10, 2013
  8. ditto
  9. www.cm-mirandela.pt ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2016 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 February 10, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cm-mirandela.pt
  10. ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 302.
  11. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  12. www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 10, 2013
  13. www.cm-mirandela.pt ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2014 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 February 10, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cm-mirandela.pt