Moncarapacho

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Moncarapacho
coat of arms map
Moncarapacho Coat of Arms
Moncarapacho (Portugal)
Moncarapacho
Basic data
Region : Algarve
Sub-region : Algarve
District : Faro
Concelho : Olhão
Coordinates : 37 ° 5 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 5 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W
Residents: 7699 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 69.13 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 111 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 8700-087
politics
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Moncarapacho
Praça Major João Xavier de Castanheda, 2
8700-087 Moncarapacho

Moncarapacho is a small town ( Vila ) and former municipality on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal .

Alley decorated for the festival in the historic town center

geography

Moncarapacho is located southwest of the Serra de Monte Figo . It is 6 km north of the district capital Olhão, and about 16 km northeast of the district capital Faro .

history

Finds such as the remains of a number of watchtowers and surrounding fortification traces prove that the area was already settled before the arrival of the Romans in the 2nd century BC. BC who made it part of their Lusitania Province . After the invasion of Germanic tribes in the 5th century AD, the Moors drove them from the early 8th century and the area became part of al-Andalus . In the course of the Reconquista , today's municipality, together with the whole of the Algarve, became part of the Kingdom of Portugal around 1250 .

The first official mention of today's location is documented in a letter from King D. Fernando I from 1368 . In 1471 the place was raised to a vila (small town) and has since been the seat of an independent municipality.

Street in the center of Moncarapacho (1992)

Culture and sights

A number of remains of various watchtowers and fortifications from different eras can be seen in the parish. The local monuments also include historical public buildings, a windmill, two mansions and various sacred buildings , including the parish church Igreja Paroquial de Moncarapacho (also Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Graça ), which was built in the 15th century and has since been rebuilt several times Gothic to Baroque shows. The historic town center as a whole is also a listed building.

In the Museu Paroquial de Moncarapacho there are local archaeological and ethnographic exhibits, but also sculptures and sacred art.

The folk dance association Rancho Folclórico de Moncarapacho , founded in 1963, has often represented the traditions of the place and the region internationally.

administration

Map of Conselho Olhão, Moncarapacho highlighted
The São Sebastião dos Matinhos church in Laranjeiro

Moncarapacho was the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( Concelho ) of Olhão in the Faro district . 7699 inhabitants lived in it on an area of ​​69 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following localities are in the area of ​​the former municipality:

  • Alfandanga
  • Areias
  • Bias do Norte
  • Bias do Sul
  • Fontes Santas
  • Foupana
  • Gião
  • Lagoão
  • Laranjeiro
  • Maragota
  • Murteira
  • Pereirinhas
  • Pereiro
  • Pés do Cerro
  • Quatrim do Sul

As part of the regional reform in Portugal on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Moncarapacho and Fuseta were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Moncarapacho e Fuseta . Moncarapacho became the seat of the municipality.

The common train station of Fuseta and Moncarapacho

traffic

The place is on the Linha do Algarve railway line . It is connected to the A22 motorway with its own junction (No. 15) .

Web links

Commons : Moncarapacho  - 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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on March 2, 2013
  4. ^ History page of the secondary school of the community , accessed on March 2, 2013
  5. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on March 2, 2013
  6. ↑ ditto
  7. ↑ ditto
  8. ↑ Website of the association ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2012 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 March 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ranchodemoncarapacho.com.sapo.pt
  9. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014