Monsaraz

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Monsaraz
coat of arms map
Monsaraz coat of arms
Monsaraz (Portugal)
Monsaraz
Basic data
Region : Alentejo
Sub-region : Alentejo Central
District : Évora
Concelho : Reguengos de Monsaraz
Coordinates : 38 ° 26 ′  N , 7 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 26 ′  N , 7 ° 32 ′  W
Residents: 782 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 88.29 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 8.9 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 7200
politics
Mayor : Jorge Miguel Nunes
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Monsaraz
Largo Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, 9
7200-175 Monsaraz
Website: monsaraz.pt

Monsaraz is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district of Reguengos de Monsaraz in the Alentejo in Portugal , with an area of ​​88.3 km² and 782 inhabitants (June 30, 2011). The population density is 8.9 inhabitants per km². Since 1838 Monsaraz belongs to the district of the same name, 15 km away Reguengos de Monsaraz.

history

The settlement of this area on today's Spanish border goes back to the Bronze Age . Several megalithic monuments in the area attest to this. Even in the times of the Romans and later under the Moors there were human settlements here on the hill.

The town of Monsaraz was recaptured from the Moorish occupation in 1167 , by the army around the leader Geraldo sem Pavor . Monsaraz became the place in 1276 by King Afonso III. appointed. Monsaraz is one of the oldest and best preserved historical places in the Alentejo and an old Templar domain . After the dissolution of the Templar Order in 1312, King Dinis and the Templar João Lourenço from Monsaraz planned to transfer the Templar Order to the Order of Christ . João Lourenço also became his first grandmaster , and under the new name of the Knight of Christ, the association is transformed into the state-sponsoring elite group of Portugal.

The place still has a continuous closed city wall and many historical buildings have been preserved. Today the place as a municipality is also responsible for the villages of Matriz de Santa Maria da Lagoa, Santiago and São Bartolomeu. Until the completion of the Alqueva reservoir , the place was above the Guardiana River on the Spanish border.

Historical buildings

Anta do Olival da Pega

photos

  • Castelo de Monsaraz

  • View of Monsaraz

  • View of Monsaraz

  • View of Monsaraz on the hill

  • Monsaraz

  • View of the tower and city walls of Monsaraz

  • Monsaraz

  • Monsaraz

  • Monsaraz - Pelourinho

  • Monsaraz

  • Church in Monsaraz

  • Source house

  • Herdade do Xerez megalithic stone formation

  • Menhir of Outeiro

  • Menhir of Belhoa / Bulhoa

  • Anta 1 by Olival da Péga

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

Web links

Commons : Monsaraz  - collection of images