Nossa Senhora da Tourega

Nossa Senhora da Tourega
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Alentejo Central
District :	Évora
Concelho :	Évora
Freguesia :	União das Freguesias de Nossa Senhora da Tourega e Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe
Coordinates :	38 ° 30 ′  N , 8 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 30 ′  N , 8 ° 3 ′  W
Postal code :	7000-093

Nossa Senhora da Tourega is a place and a former municipality in Portugal .

The Anta Grande do Zambujeiro is one of the largest megalithic complexes in the municipality.

A cache of the international geocaching community is hidden near the Roman archaeological site of Villa Romana de Nossa Senhora da Tourega .

history

At the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro

Antas and other finds document a prehistoric settlement from around 3,000 BC. BC, including the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro and the Antas do Barrocal . Excavations and finds from Roman times testify to a relatively important village, including larger baths and an adjacent villa .

Today's place was probably built much later, during the Christian Reconquista , as evidenced by the remains of the medieval castle Castelo de Geraldo . In the early 16th century, the village was a resort for the Bishop of Évora.

Nossa Senhora da Tourega remained an independent municipality until it was dissolved with the territorial reform in 2013 and merged with Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe .

administration

View of Valverde, the main town in the municipality

Nossa Senhora da Tourega was a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Évora , in the district of Évora . The community had 689 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

A number of localities made up the municipality, including:

• Barrocal
• Valverde
• Zambujeiro

With the administrative reorganization in Portugal on September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Nossa Senhora da Tourega and Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Nossa Senhora da Tourega e Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe . Nossa Senhora da Tourega is the seat of this newly formed community.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Nossa Senhora da Tourega on www.geocaching.com, accessed on November 8, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry of the castle Castelo de Geraldo in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on November 8, 2015
3. ^ Page on the history of the municipality on the website of the former municipal administration, accessed on November 8, 2015
4. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014