Monção

Monção
Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Alto Minho
District :	Viana do Castelo
Concelho :	Monção
Coordinates :	42 ° 4 ′ N , 8 ° 29 ′ W Coordinates: 42 ° 4 ′ N , 8 ° 29 ′ W
Residents:	19,230 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	211.32 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km²
Monção district
Residents:	19,230 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	211.32 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	24
administration
Administration address:	Largo de Camões ; ; 4950-444 Monção
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Dr. José Emílio Pedreira Moreira
Website:	www.cm-moncao.pt

In the center of Monção

Monção is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( concelho ) in the district of Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal . It is located on the Rio Minho , approx. 45 km east of the mouth of the river in the Atlantic at Caminha and approx. 35 km from Afreira , where the Minho turns from a purely Spanish river to the border river between Spain and Portugal.

history

Statue of the Deu-la-Deu Martins, mythologically represented as Danaide

Monção received town charter in 1261 . In 1368 the girl Deu-la-Deu Martins sat in a chest over the Minho to help her people in the fight against the Spaniards. Paozinhos (small bread cakes) are still baked in her honor today . In addition, a statue of the girl, mythologically designed as Danaide, adorns the north side of the Praça (market square). The cenotaph ( 1679 ) of this local heroine is in the Capela do Cruzeiro in the Igreja de Santa Maria dos Anjos .

Tradition also says: When the Spaniards almost starved the Portuguese Monção during a siege in 1368, the commander of Mongào had rolls baked with the last of the flour - and threw them to the occupiers over the walls of the city - the Spaniards considered them according to this trick Siege for sheer waste of time and withdrew.

The place is known for its wine ( Vinho Verde , which is mainly made from the Alvarinho grape variety .) And for the Festa da Coca on Ascension Day, when a 2 m high and 5 m long "dragon" against the helmeted and in a procession armed St. George fights, whereby of course the evil dragon is defeated.

administration

The circle

Monção is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the east): Melgaço , Arcos de Valdevez , Paredes de Coura and Valença . In the north the district borders on Spain .

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged to form new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 33 to 24.

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

Monção district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Abedim	205	7.72	27	160401
Anhões e Luzio	260	14.38	18th	160434
Barbeita	1,016	6.88	148	160404
Barroças e Taias	319	2.72	117	160405
Bela	698	3.79	184	160406
Cambeses	496	4.02	123	160407
Ceivães e Badim	670	8.95	75	160435
Lara	266	4.93	54	160410
Longos Vales	989	14.00	71	160411
Mazedo e Cortes	3,377	12.13	278	160436
Shouts	1,097	28.51	38	160415
Messegães, Valadares e Sá	658	8.25	80	160437
Monção e Troviscoso	3,535	8.68	407	160438
Moreira	615	3.73	165	160418
Pias	854	11.12	77	160420
Pinheiros	345	2.13	162	160421
Podame	278	3.65	76	160422
Portela	242	8.12	30th	160423
Riba de Mouro	964	14.05	69	160424
Sago, Lordelo e Parada	448	8.33	54	160439
Segude	356	2.37	150	160427
Tangil	768	22.88	34	160428
Troporiz e Lapela	497	3.96	125	160440
Turkey	277	6.02	46	160431
Monção district	19,230	211.32	91	1604