Monsanto (Idanha-a-Nova)

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Monsanto
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Monsanto (Portugal)
Monsanto
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Viseu Dão-Lafoes
District : Castelo Branco
Concelho : Idanha-a-Nova
Coordinates : 40 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 7 ′  W
Residents: 828 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 131.95 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 6.3 inhabitants per km²
politics
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Monsanto
Rua Marquês Graciosa 2
6060-091 Monsanto IDN
Website: www.cm-idanhanova.pt
Monsanto

Monsanto is a freguesia of Portugal , with an area of ​​132 square kilometers and 828 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). It is one of the twelve historic villages, the Aldeias Históricas .

geography

The place is located on a mountain, northeast of Idanha-a-Nova , which rises up to 758 meters above sea level. The rock of the mountain is granite , from which the historical village visible today is built.

history

The earliest human traces date from the Early Stone Age . The Romans settled at the foot of the mountain. There are also traces of the passage of Visigoths and Arabs . In the 12th century took Alfonso I , during the Reconquista called Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, the possession of the area and donated it in 1165 to the Knights Templar to care, under the condition above and below the former bishop's Idanha to create two new protected castles. Under the leadership of the order master Gualdim Pais , Monsanto was built as a second castle next to Idanha-a-Nova . Sancho I later had the castle rebuilt.

It was the headquarters of a separate district ( concelho ) between 1174 and the 19th century.

In 1939, the place was named the most Portuguese village in a nationwide competition organized by the Estado Novo regime's state propaganda .

Buildings and places

  • Monsanto

  • Monsanto rocks with residential house

  • Monsanto rocks

  • Rocks are integrated when building a house

  • Capela de Sao Miguel do Castelo

  • Castle e muralhas de Monsanto
  • Capela de São Pedro de Vir à Corça or Capela de São Pedro de Vira-Corça
  • Estação arqueológica romana de São Lourenço
  • Aldeia Velha de Monsanto
  • Pelourinho de Monsanto
  • Torre de Lucano
  • Capela da Senhora da Azenha
  • Capela da Senhora do Pé da Cruz
  • Capela de Santa Maria do Castelo
  • Capela de Santo António
  • Capela de Sao José
  • Capela de Sao Miguel do Castelo
  • Capela de Sao Sebastiao
  • Capela do Espírito Santo
  • Fonte Ferreiro
  • Igreja da Misericórdia de Monsanto
  • Igreja Matriz de Monsanto or Igreja de São Salvador
  • Solar da Família do Marquês da Graciosa (Posto de Turismo do Monsanto)
  • Solar da Família Melo or Solar dos Condes de Monsanto
  • Solar da Família Pinheiro or Solar da Fonte do Mono
  • Solar dos Priores de Monsanto

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. ^ Margarida Magalhães Ramalho: Aldeias Históricas. 1st edition, Edições Inapa, Lisbon 2006, page 107ff
  4. ↑ Susana Falhas, Henrique Almeida: Historic villages of Portugal. , 1st edition, Olho de Turista, Mêda 2010, page 249ff