Moita

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Moita
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Moita
Moita (Portugal)
Moita
Basic data
Region : Lisboa
Sub-region : Lisbon metropolitan area
District : Setubal
Concelho : Moita
Coordinates : 38 ° 39 ′  N , 9 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 39 ′  N , 9 ° 0 ′  W
Residents: 17,653 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 17.94 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 984 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2860-478
politics
Mayor : João Miguel ( CDU )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Moita
Rua Machado Santos, 18 B - 1º
2860-478 Moita
Website: www.jf-moita.pt
Moita district
flag map
Flag of Moita Position of the Moita district
Residents: 66,029 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 55.26 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 1195 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 4th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Moita
Praça da República
2860-422 Moita
President of the Câmara Municipal: Rui Manuel Marques Garcia ( CDU )
Website: www.cm-moita.pt

Moita [ ˈmoitɐ ] is a small town ( vila ) in Portugal , in the Lisbon region . 17,653 people live in the city (as of June 30, 2011).

Moita is known for its bullfighting and viticulture traditions. With the Casa dos Marcos, there is also a European pioneering project on rare diseases .

Boats in the Tagus River in front of Moita

history

King Sancho I gave the region on the south bank of the Tejo (now known as Margem Sul ) to the Santiagoorden in 1186 . The present-day town only emerged from 1217 after the final recapture of Alcácer do Sal . In 1319 , São Lourenço de Alhos Vedros was created as the first independent community. Alhos Vedros was 1,477 for Vila appointed to 1,479 seats to become an independent circuit. In 1514 the place received city rights.

In the course of the 16th century, other small towns emerged in the area. Due to the densely forested area, the population here grew only slowly. The most important economic activity, besides fishing and agriculture, was the ferry traffic across the wide Tagus. Moita has thus increasingly become an important transit point between the capital Lisbon and the south of the country. This resulted in an increasing importance of Moita compared to the gradually declining Alhos Vedros. In 1691 Moita was elevated to vila.

In the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the following civil war from 1826 to 1834 , the district of Alhos Vedros was dissolved in 1855 and incorporated into the Barreiro district as an independent municipality. After the community came to the Moita district in 1861 , it was dissolved in 1895 and completely incorporated into Barreiro, in order to be an independent district again since 1898 .

The bullfights that have been taking place in Moita since 1837 have been held in the newly built bullring since 1872 . After the authorities the arena in 1947 had closed for security reasons, the established Sociedade de Moitense Tauromaquia ( port. For: bullfighting company of Moita). This organized the construction of the Arena Daniel do Nascimento , which can be seen today and which opened in 1950 .

Culture and sights

Among the monuments of Moita include a number of historic public buildings, including the 1722 built Kai , the Fábrica de Cortiça Socorquex ( cork ) from the 1940s, the cemetery, which opened in 1928 power plant in the Art Deco style, and various residential blocks of social housing and gardens. It also includes sacred buildings , including the Mannerist - Baroque parish church Igreja Paroquial da Moita from the 17th century, and after its patron saint also Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem (German: Church of Our Lady of the Safe Journey)

The historic town center is also a listed building as a whole.

See also: List of cultural monuments in the Concelho Moita

administration

Moita district

Coat of arms of the Moita district

Moita is the seat of a district of the same name, Concelho, in the Setúbal district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 66,029 inhabitants on an area of ​​55.3 km². The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Montijo , Palmela , Barreiro and the Tagus Delta .

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

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Moita district:

Moita district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Alhos Vedros 15,050 17.91 840 150601
Baixa da Banheira e Vale da Amoreira 30,949 6.42 4,820 150607
Gaio-Rosário e Sarilhos Pequenos 2,377 12.99 183 150608
Moita 17,653 17.94 984 150603
Moita district 66,029 55.26 1,195 1506

Population development

Population in Moita County
year 1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2008
Residents 1,261 2,273 6,350 9,486 29,110 53,240 65,086 67,449 71,596
At Moita train station

Municipal holiday

  • Tuesday after the second Sunday in September

Town twinning

traffic

Moita County has three stops on the Linha do Alentejo Railway , including Moita City Railway Station.

The city is connected to the country's trunk road network via its junction with the A33 motorway .

Local and regional public transport is ensured by private bus routes, especially the Transportes Sul do Tejo .

sons and daughters of the town

António Hipólito da Costa

The conductor and composer Francisco Félix Simaria was director of the local orchestra Sociedade Filarmónica Estrela Moitense from 1876 .

Web links

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

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. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ↑ The local history on www.verportugal.net , accessed on October 7, 2013
  5. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on October 23, 2013
  6. ↑ ditto
  7. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  8. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on October 23, 2013