Penela

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Penela
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Penela coat of arms
Penela (Portugal)
Penela
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Region of Coimbra
District : Coimbra
Concelho : Penela
Coordinates : 40 ° 2 ′  N , 8 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 2 ′  N , 8 ° 24 ′  W
Residents: 5983 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 134.79 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km²
Penela County
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Flag of Penela Location of the district of Penela
Residents: 5983 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 134.79 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 44 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 4th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Penela
Praça do Município
3230-253 Penela
President of the Câmara Municipal: António José dos Santos Antunes Alves ( PSD )
Website: www.cm-penela.pt

Penela is a district ( concelho ) and a vila (small town) in Portugal with 5983 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

Penela and its castle

geography

Penela is about 20 km south of the district capital Coimbra .

The Aguas Romanas Park

history

The Romans had a fortification here that was destroyed by the Vandals . The fortress that was subsequently built here was conquered by the Arabs in the 8th century . These were expelled by Ferdinand I in the course of the Reconquista , and D.Sisnando became ruler of Penela as Count of Coimbra. Even before the independent Kingdom of Portugal was founded , Penela received its first town charter ( Foral ) in 1137 , from D.Afonso Henriques . After another Arab invasion, Penela was finally retaken in 1148 .

In the Portuguese Revolution of 1383 , the inhabitants of Penela fought on the side of the proponents of John I , against the will of the ruler of the city. In 1514 King Manuel I renewed the city charter .

administration

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Penela is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Miranda do Corvo , Figueiró dos Vinhos , Ansião , Soure and Condeixa-a-Nova .

With the territorial reform in September 2013 , the municipalities ( freguesias ) São Miguel , Santa Eufémia and Rabaçal were combined to form the new municipality União das Freguesias de São Miguel, Santa Eufémia e Rabaçal . Since then, the district has consisted of the following four municipalities:

Alleys below the castle
Penela County
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Cumeeira 1,072 21.29 50 061401
Espinhal 775 29.38 26th 061402
Podentes 485 17.28 28 061403
São Miguel, Santa Eufémia e Rabaçal 3,651 66.84 55 061407
Penela County 5,983 134.79 44 0614

Population development

Population in Penela County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
6,893 7,671 9,954 10,754 9,438 8,023 6,919 6,594 5,980

Municipal holiday

Town twinning

The nightly Penela

media

The local newspaper Região do Castelo appears every two weeks . She also runs a news blog about Penela on her website.

The local broadcaster Rádio São Miguel has broadcast 93.5 all day since 1998 .

traffic

Penela is on the N110 national road (also IC3 here).

Until the Ramal da Lousã railway line was suspended in 2009, the nearest train station was in Miranda do Corvo, around 8 km to the north .

Local public transport in Penela County is operated by private regional bus routes. In addition, in 2008 the district administration, in cooperation with Transdev, created the Penela Não Pára minibus line , which runs six times a day to the district capital of Coimbra . A trip to Coimbra costs 3 € (as of February 2015).

António Arnault in Amsterdam (1979)

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Penela  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed December 30, 2012
  4. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  5. ↑ List of parish partnerships in Penelas on the website of the Association of Portuguese District Government ANMP, accessed on September 1, 2017
  6. ^ Website of the Região do Castelo newspaper (as blog), accessed on February 21, 2015
  7. ↑ Website for the urban minibus line Penela Não Pára ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the district administration website, accessed February 21, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cm-penela.pt