Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé

Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Alentejo Central
District :	Évora
Concelho :	Évora
Coordinates :	38 ° 33 ′  N , 8 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 33 ′  N , 8 ° 5 ′  W
Residents:	304 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	32.39 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	9.4 inhabitants per km²

Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé is a locality and former municipality in Portugal .

The Ponte do Lagar da Boa Fé bridge

history

The present-day place was probably built long after the medieval Reconquista . The first records date from the 16th century. With the Ponte do Lagar da Boa Fé , a 27-meter-long, three-arched bridge from the 17th century has been preserved as part of a trade route from Évora to Alcácer do Sal.

In the 16th century the place became an independent municipality. In 1911 it was dissolved and affiliated to the community of Nossa Senhora da Graça do Divor , and in 1926 to the newly created community of São Sebastião da Giesteira .

On December 31, 1936, Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé became an independent municipality again, until it was dissolved again with the territorial reform in 2013 and merged with São Sebastião da Giesteira to form a new municipality.

The parish church of Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé

administration

Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé was a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district of Évora ( concelho ), in the district of Évora . 304 inhabitants live in the former municipality (as of June 30, 2011).

With the administrative reorganization in Portugal on September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé and São Sebastião da Giesteira were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de São Sebastião da Giesteira e Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé . The seat of the new municipality was São Sebastião da Giesteira.

Web links

Commons : Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry of the former municipality of Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé in the portal of the Portuguese municipalities

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. ^ Entry of the parish church of Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on November 8, 2015
4. ↑ Article on the dissolution of the Nossa Senhora da Boa Fé community on the PCP website , accessed on November 8, 2015
5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014