Mirandela
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Norte | |||||
Sub-region : | Terras de Trás-os-Montes | |||||
District : | Bragança | |||||
Concelho : | Mirandela | |||||
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 |
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Mirandela district | ||||||
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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 |
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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.
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
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
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
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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:
local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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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 |
Population development
Population in Mirandela County (1801–2011) | ||||||||
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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.
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
- Luciano Cordeiro (1844–1900), writer
- Augusto Alves da Veiga (1850–1924), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and Republican politician, Freemason
- João Maria Ferreira Sarmento Pimentel (1888–1987), officer, author and opposition activist
- Armindo Teixeira Lopes (1905–1976), painter
- Manuel Gil Teixeira Lopes (* 1936), painter and university lecturer, son of Armindo Teixeira Lopes
- José Augusto Gama (1942–2000), politician, Conservative MEP
- Jesualdo Ferreira (* 1946), football coach
- Isaltino Morais (* 1949), lawyer and politician, former minister
- Eurico Carrapatoso (* 1962), composer
- César Quiterio (* 1976), racing cyclist
- Paulo Jorge Pedro Lopes (* 1978), football player
- Eduardo dos Reis Carvalho (* 1982), football player, national goalkeeper
- João Geraldo (* 1995), table tennis player
People who worked on site
- Camilo Pessanha (1867–1926), writer, lived in Mirandela in the 1880s
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Mirandela at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ http://codigopostal.ciberforma.pt/dir/empresa2.asp?emp=3615
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ http://www.igeo.pt/atlas/Cap2/Cap2d_p107_image.html
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed February 10, 2013
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 10, 2013
- ↑ ditto
- ↑ 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
- ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 302.
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 10, 2013
- ↑ 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