Monção

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Monção
coat of arms map
Monção coat of arms
Monção (Portugal)
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
flag map
Flag of Monção Position of the 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

Population development

Population in the Monção district (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
12,095 14,983 26,077 24,585 27,393 23,799 21,799 19,956 19,210

Municipal holiday

  • March 12th

Town twinning

traffic

Monção was the end of a branch line of the Linha do Minho .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Monção  - 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. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  4. www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 2, 2013