Mondrões

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Mondrões
coat of arms map
Mondrões coat of arms
Mondrões (Portugal)
Mondrões
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Douro
District : Vila Real
Concelho : Vila Real
Coordinates : 41 ° 18 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 18 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W
Residents: 1065 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 11.04 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 96 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5000-325
politics
Mayor : Félix Manuel Lourenço Salgado Touças ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Mondrões
Largo Armandinho da Tojeira
5000–325 Mondrões
Website: www.cm-vilareal.pt/mondroes

Mondrões is a village and a municipality in northern Portugal . The patron saint is James the Elder . The endangered manufacturing tradition of black ceramics in the local village of Bisalhães is listed by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of conservation .

history

Mondrões parish church from the 16th century.

Today's town was probably rebuilt as part of the settlement policy during the Reconquista . In the surveys under King D. Afonso II. 1220 Mondrões was listed as belonging to the municipality of Pena .

Mondrões received its first town charter ( Foral ) on December 15, 1519 from King D. Manuel I , who made it the seat of an administrative district. In 1586 the district was dissolved again, since then Mondrões has been a municipality of the Vila Real district.

Craftsmen and potters settled in this community early on. The ceramic production developed in particular in the village Bisalhães whose inhabitants used black clay, to produce their characteristic ceramics.

In 2016 the black ceramic production of Bisalhães was included in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of conservation .

administration

Mondrões is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vila Real in the Vila Real district of the same name . 1065 inhabitants live in it on an area of ​​11 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following places are in the municipality:

  • Areias
  • Bisalhães
  • Casa Nova
  • Chão das Eiras
  • Escaleirão
  • Escola
  • Feirões
  • Fundo da Aldeia
  • Giestas
  • Gulpilhares
  • Igreja
  • Insua
  • Lameira
  • Longueirinha
  • Malácia
  • Mondrões
  • Pedra Alta
  • Ponte de Machados
  • Quintelas
  • Rabo do Gato
  • Ramalhão
  • Recta
  • Sapiões
  • Sarnado
  • Sordo
  • Vale de Galegos

Web links

Commons : Mondrões  - 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. ↑ History of Mondrões Municipality , Vila Real District Administration, accessed on January 12, 2020
  4. ↑ Website for the entry of the black ceramics from Bisalhães in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of conservation, accessed on January 12, 2020