Pampilhosa da Serra

Pampilhosa da Serra
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Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Region of Coimbra
District :	Coimbra
Concelho :	Pampilhosa da Serra
Coordinates :	40 ° 3 ′  N , 7 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 3 ′  N , 7 ° 57 ′  W
Residents:	1389 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	100.18 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	3320
politics
Mayor :	José Alberto Pacheco Brito Dias ( PSD )
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Pampilhosa da Serra 3320-229 Pampilhosa da Serra
Website:	www.freguesias.pt/freguesia.php?cod=061206
Pampilhosa da Serra county
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Residents:	4481 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	396.48 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	8th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Pampilhosa da Serra Rua Rangel de Lima 3320-229 Pampilhosa da Serra
Website:	www.cm-pampilhosadaserra.pt

Pampilhosa da Serra is a vila (small town) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 1389 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

Landscape in Pampilhosa da Serra County

At the Barragem Santa Luzia reservoir

history

The first traces of human settlement can be found here from the end of the second and beginning of the first millennium BC. The current place was first mentioned in 1241 AD. In 1308 King D Dinis elevated the place to a vila and gave it city rights ( Foral ). The place had to give up its status several times against his resistance and was subsequently annexed to Covilhã several times until it was finally declared an independent vila in 1399 by King D. João I.

In 1513 King Manuel I renewed the town charter .

administration

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Pampilhosa da Serra is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Arganil , Covilhã , Fundão , Oleiros , Sertã , Pedrógão Grande and Góis .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , the four municipalities of Fajão , Vidual , Portela do Fojo and Machio were merged into two new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from ten to eight.

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Pampilhosa da Serra district:

Pampilhosa da Serra county

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Cabril	231	35.20	7th	061201
Dornelas do Zezere	682	16.44	41	061202
Fajão - Vidual	317	79.59	4th	061211
Janeiro de Baixo	669	40.70	16	061204
Pampilhosa da Serra	1,389	100.18	14th	061206
Pessegueiro	228	32.00	7th	061207
Portela do Fojo - Machio	507	52.80	10	061212
Unhais-o-Velho	458	39.57	12	061209
Pampilhosa da Serra county	4,481	396.48	11	0612

Population development

Population in Pampilhosa da Serra County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
3,260	4.163	12,426	13,459	13,372	7,493	5,797	5,220	4,487

Municipal holiday

• 10th of April

Culture, sports and sights

In the circle are two of the traditional slate villages, the Aldeias do Xisto . Thematically ordered, both local and regional hiking trails lead through the district.

In the whole district nature-oriented rural tourism is offered, and hunting tourism is also important, especially through the agency Serracaça - Sociedade Cinegética e Turística de Pampilhosa da Serra, Lda in Fajão .

A mountain bike center, the Centro BTT, has been set up in Pampilhosa da Serra . It offers bathing facilities, special rooms and services, and is the starting point for various bike trails with a length of 122 km.

The Barragem Santa Luzia reservoir offers a wide range of swimming and water sports. Also birdwatching is possible here.

The football club Grupo Desportivo Pampilhosense , the water sports club Clube Náutico , and the hunting and fishing club Associação do Clube de Caça e Pesca MBL are the most important sports clubs in the district.

In the circle you can see 20 listed buildings, mainly sacred buildings , in particular the parish church Igreja Paroquial da Pampilhosa da Serra (also Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pranto ) with an altarpiece from the 16th century.

sons and daughters of the town

• Fernando Brito (* 1957), painter
• António Fernandes (* 1962), chess player
• Tony Carreira (* 1963), Portuguese singer (from Armadoura in the municipality of Cabril)

Web links

Commons : Pampilhosa da Serra  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia Pampilhosa da Serra at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website
• Page with different picture galleries from Pampilhosa da Serra

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. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed December 28, 2012
5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
6. ↑ www.cm-pampilhosadaserra.pt ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 28, 2012 
7. ↑ ditto ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on December 28, 2012