Picote
| Picote ( Portuguese ) Picuote (Mirandés) |
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Terras de Trás-os-Montes | |||||
| District : | Bragança | |||||
| Concelho : | Miranda do Douro | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 24 ′ N , 6 ° 22 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 301 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 19.43 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 15 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 5225-072 | |||||
| politics | ||||||
| Mayor : | Gonçalo José Peres Santos ( PSD ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Picote ( Portuguese ) Picuote (Mirandés) Largo da Igreja 5225-072 Picote ( Portuguese ) Picuote (Mirandés) |
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| Website: | www.picote.jfreguesia.com | |||||
Picote ( Mirandés : Picuote ) is a village and a municipality in northeastern Portugal .
history
Rock paintings and other finds prove a prehistoric settlement. There were at least three fortified Castro culture settlements here . The sculpture of a sow found in 1952 attests to the pagan religious customs that lasted until the 4th century BC. Were practiced here. After that, the area became part of the Roman Empire . As a result it was Christianized and restructured. The surrounding Castros were given up, and the Castro Castelhar acquired as a civitas regional importance as an administrative center. There were u. a. Remains of a villa rustica and over 20 Roman marble tombs found, which are now in museums in Miranda do Douro and the district capital of Bragança.
The Moors conquered almost the entire Iberian Peninsula from 711 , but it is not known that Arabs have stayed in today's Picote. In the course of the Reconquista , however, a small fortress was probably built here, to which people temporarily fled, as the finds of medieval ceramics and a Leonese coin suggest. Since Picote was listed as an existing municipality in the various royal surveys of the 13th century, the place was probably continuously inhabited. In 1530 it had only 62 inhabitants.
In 1796 227 people lived here. 90 made a living from agriculture, while the others made wool or were tailors, blacksmiths and carpenters. The manufacture of bricks and silk should also be mentioned. Until the 20th century wool linen was here hand-formed and spun, woven baskets, olive oil and wine produced, liquor burned, pigeons bred and baked bread, partly using the water mills on the river of the village, which here in the Douro flows .
Picote received a development boost from the construction of the Picote dam from 1953. When it opened in 1958, the construction workers moved away, leaving the employees of the hydropower plant and their families, for whom a modern quarter outside the village was built. In addition to the decreasing number of employees, there was a wave of emigration in the 1960s and 1970s. a. to France. After all operating facilities were relocated to central control centers, the remaining employees of the power plants finally left the site in the 1990s.
The emigration from the community continues to this day due to the lack of economic impetus, similar to most other communities in the region. Picote remained an independent municipality after the administrative reorganization in Portugal in 2013, while a number of other, also shrinking municipalities were merged in the Miranda do Douro district.
Culture and sights
Picote
View from the Miradouro Fraga do Puio
Street sign in Picote: Mirandés above, Portuguese below
Picote is one of the places where the Mirandés is spoken, the only regional language in Portugal. In Picote, therefore, the street signs are bilingual, Mirandés and Portuguese .
The monuments of the community include u. a. various sacred buildings , historical stone fountains and the remains of a medieval military facility , the Atalaia de Esculca .
A large number of birds, including eagles, can be seen in the municipality as part of bird watching . A particularly suitable place is the Miradouro Fraga do Puio (Mirandés: Peinha de l Puio), which offers a wide view of the surrounding area and the Douro.
Picote is located in the Douro International Nature Reserve (Portuguese Parque Natural do Douro Internacional ). Hiking trails and nature trails are laid out here.
The Picote dam and its residential complex
Not far from the village is the Picote dam, which was commissioned in 1958 . In this context, the village of Barrocal do Douro, designed according to the principles of an ideal city, was created. It consisted of residential quarters with semi-detached houses and functional buildings, and housed employees and families of the energy company (later EDP ) and previously the employees of the companies involved in the construction. After the operation and control of the hydropower plant were brought together in central locations in the 1990s, the avant-garde place increasingly fell into disrepair. The Miranda do Douro district administration bought some buildings in 2000 and established a number of buildings there. a. a youth hostel. From 2002 a concept for the restoration and upgrading of the village was developed. The village has been a listed building since 2011.
administration
Picote is a parish ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Miranda do Douro , in the Bragança district . 301 inhabitants live in the municipality (as of June 30, 2011). In connection with the construction of the Picote dam, the population had in the meantime approached the figure of 2000, only to have steadily decreased since then. The municipality is located in a region of Portugal that is considered to be particularly structurally weak . The municipality consists of two localities:
- Barrocal do Douro
- Picote
literature
- Picote . In: Isabel Silva (ed.): Dicionário Enciclopédico das Freguesias . 2nd Edition. tape 3 : Bragança, Guarda, Vila Real . Minha Terra, Matosinhos 1997, ISBN 972-96087-7-6 , pp. 99 (Portuguese).
Web links
- Official website of the local government (Portuguese)
- Article on the Barrocal do Douro residential complex ( memento of October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese) with photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ Congregation history page on the Congregation website, accessed July 26, 2014.
- ↑ Publication of the administrative reorganization (PDF, p. 71) in the Diário da República law gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on July 26, 2014.
- ↑ Entry of Atalaia de Esculca in the Portuguese list of architectural monuments SIPA , accessed on July 26, 2014.
- ↑ Entry on Picote on the Portuguese bird watching website avesdeportugal.info, accessed on July 26, 2014.
- ^ Article of December 29, 2006 in the weekly Expresso , accessed on July 26, 2014.
- ↑ Entry of the residential complex in the Portuguese list of architectural monuments SIPA , accessed on July 26, 2014.
