Montalvão
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Alentejo | |||||
| Sub-region : | Alto Alentejo | |||||
| District : | Portalegre | |||||
| Concelho : | Nisa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 36 ′ N , 7 ° 32 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 442 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 124.17 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 3.6 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 6050-450 | |||||
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| Mayor : | António Semedo da Cruz Belo | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Montalvão Rua da Barca nº 29 6050-450 Montalvão |
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Montalvão is a small town ( Vila ) and municipality in Portugal .
history
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The place was created in the course of the settlement policy at the end of the Portuguese Reconquista , when the young Kingdom of Portugal took large parts of the Alentejo from the Moors . King Sancho I gave the local area to the Knights Templar in 1199 . The Templars settled here mainly settlers from the south of France, who named the villages that were created here after French places, including Montalvão (from Montauban ). The name of the district town Nisa (from Nice , French: Nice ) was probably created in this way, as did the names of other municipalities in the district, such as Arez (from Arles ) and Tolosa (from Toulouse ).
King D Dinis had a castle built here in the 13th century, based on the fortifications that already existed here.
Montalvão received city rights in 1512 by King Manuel I.
It remained the seat of an independent district until it was dissolved in 1834 and incorporated into the Nisa district.
Culture and sights
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Among the monuments of the municipality are the medieval castle Castelo de Montalvão , the bullring opened in 1933 (Portuguese: Praça de Touros ), and the two-storey primary school building. A number of sacred buildings in the parish are also listed, including the parish church Igreja Paroquial de Montalvão , also called Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (English: Church of Our Lady of Remedies) after its patron saint . The three-aisled church was built as a Gothic building from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 14th century and, after renovations, especially in the 16th century, shows features of the Baroque and Mannerism , such as in the altarpieces .
The historic town center is also a listed building as a whole.
administration
Montalvão is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Nisa . It has 442 inhabitants on an area of 124 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
The following localities are in the municipality:
- Montalvão
- Quinta da Fonte da Cereja
- Quinta da Fonte Feia
- Salavessa
Web links
- Website of the municipality at the district
- Site of the village of Salavessa
- Entry Montalvãos in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ^ History page of the district , accessed on July 24, 2013
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on July 24, 2013
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