Peso da Régua

Peso da Régua
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Douro
District :	Vila Real
Concelho :	Peso da Régua
Coordinates :	41 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W
Residents:	17,131 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	94.86 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	181 inhabitants per km²
Peso da Régua county
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Residents:	17,131 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	94.86 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	181 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	8th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Peso da Régua Praça do Município 5054-003 Peso da Régua
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Nuno Manuel Sousa Pinto Carvalho Gonçalves ( PSD )
Website:	www.cm-pesoregua.pt

Peso da Régua [ ˈpezu ðɐ ˈʁɛɣwɐ ] (also Pêso da Régua , everyday language mostly just Régua ) is a town and a district in the Vila Real district in Portugal with 17,131 inhabitants. Peso da Régua is located on the banks of the Douro , about 100 km east of its mouth in Porto , in Alto Douro , the first protected wine-growing region in the world, and is the center of port wine production .

River landscape of the Douro at Peso da Régua

history

The archaeological excavations of the Estação Arqueológica da Fonte do Milho show a fortified Roman settlement here. Today's district area was repopulated in the course of the conquest by Germanic tribes from the 5th century AD. It gained increasing importance as a trading center due to its small loading port on the Douro, especially for the region's wine. King Sancho I gave the town of Godim town rights in the 12th century, to whose municipal area the small town of Peso also belonged.

After the mercantilist Prime Minister Marquês de Pombal created the world's first protected wine-growing region here in 1756, today's district took off. In 1836 the Peso da Régua district was re-established by splitting off existing districts and its capital was elevated to a vila (small town) in 1837 .

With the arrival of the Linha do Douro railway line in 1878, the town's growth accelerated considerably. In 1985 Peso da Régua became a cidade (city).

Culture and sights

Historic locomotive in Régua station

Architectural monuments

A number of chapels and other sacred buildings , bridges, town houses and various former public buildings are under monument protection . The town's train station is also part of it, as is the historic town center as a whole. The city library, the Biblioteca Municipal de Pêso da Régua, is now located in the listed city villa Palacete dos Barretos .

Exhibitions and museums

The Museu do Douro is the museum of the first protected wine-growing region in the world and functions as a documentation center with regional educational offers.

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Disused steam locomotives in Régua station

• Rota do Vinho do Porto (German: Port Wine Route)
• Estação do caminho de ferro - comboio histórico - with the steam train through the Douro valley , from Regua to Tua and back - like 100 years ago
• various circular routes in the city (port .: percurso urbano ) and the surrounding area ( percurso rural ) have been created

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Peso da Régua is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Santa Marta de Penaguião , Vila Real , Sabrosa , Armamar , Lamego , Mesão Frio and Baião .

As part of the territorial reform of September 29, 2013 , the number of communes ( freguesias ) in the Peso da Régua county was reduced from 12 to 8:

Peso da Régua county

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Fontelas	781	3.23	241	170802
Galafura e Covelinhas	886	15.85	56	170813
Loureiro	1,154	4.86	238	170805
Moura Morta e Vinhós	1,024	12.80	80	170814
Peso da Régua e Godim	9,959	10.13	983	170815
Poiares e Canelas	1,466	27.46	53	170816
Sediellos	911	12.63	72	170809
Vilarinho dos Freires	950	7.90	120	170810
Peso da Régua county	17.131	94.86	181	1708

Population development

Population in Peso da Régua County (1849–2011)
1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
9 202	18 401	20 612	22 634	22 472	21 567	18 832	17 131

Town twinning

• Marmande (France)
• Tain-l'Hermitage (France)

sons and daughters of the town

Monument to Antão Fernandes de Carvalho in Peso da Régua

• Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira (1763–1821), general in the war against the Napoleonic invasions
• António da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca (1770-1858), officer, absolutist in the Miguelistenkrieg
• Antónia Ferreira (1811-1896), entrepreneur
• João de Lemos (1819–1890), journalist, poet and playwright
• António Bernardo Ferreira (1835–1907), entrepreneur and politician
• Maximiano Lemos (1860–1923), doctor, medical researcher and university lecturer
• Manuel Vieira de Matos (1861–1932), Archbishop of Braga, founder of the Portuguese Catholic Scouts
• Antão Fernandes de Carvalho (1871–1948), politician, Republican Minister of Agriculture
• Tito Augusto de Morais (1880–1963), republican politician, admiral and colonial administrator
• Virgílio Correia (1888–1944), university professor, art historian, archaeologist and journalist
• João de Araújo Correia (1899–1985), doctor and writer
• António Guedes de Amorim (1901–1971), journalist and writer
• Marcos Miranda Guedes (1924–2001), architect in Portuguese East Africa / Mozambique
• Jaime Silva (* 1947), painter
• Duarte Lima (* 1955), lawyer and politician
• Nuno Cardoso (* 1961), politician

Web links

Commons : Peso da Régua  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city

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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 on February 19, 2013
4. ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on February 19, 2013
5. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 19, 2013
6. ↑ ditto
7. ↑ Museu do Douro (Portuguese)
8. ↑ Rota do Vinho do Porto (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese)
9. ↑ http://viajar.clix.pt/noticias.php?id=968&lg=pt