Portalegre

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Portalegre
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Portalegre Coat of Arms
Portalegre (Portugal)
Portalegre
Basic data
Region : Alentejo
Sub-region : Alto Alentejo
District : Portalegre
Concelho : Portalegre
Coordinates : 39 ° 18 ′  N , 7 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 18 ′  N , 7 ° 26 ′  W
Residents: 24,930 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 447.14 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 56 inhabitants per km²
Portalegre county
flag map
Flag of Portalegre Position of the Portalegre district
Residents: 24,930 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 447.14 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 56 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 7th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Portalegre
Rua Guilherme Gomes Fernandes, 28
7300-186 Portalegre
President of the Câmara Municipal: José Fernando da Mata Cáceres ( PSD )
Website: cm-portalegre.pt

Portalegre ( IPA [ puɾtɐ'lɛgɾ (ɨ) ]) is a city ( Cidade ) in Portugal with 24,973 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011) and the capital of the district of the same name ( Concelho ).

The city is the capital of the Portalegre administrative district and the seat of the Portalegre-Castelo Branco diocese .

Portalegre is located in the Serra de São Mamede Natural Park and is particularly known for its carpet works of art, which are exported all over the world.

View from São Bernardo Monastery to Portalegre

history

A large number of finds, in particular worked stones from the Paleolithic and Neolithic tombs, prove a prehistoric settlement. For a long time it was assumed that today's Portalegre goes back to the Roman city ​​of Ammaia, but it has been clear since the beginning of the 1930s through the discovery of a Roman inscription that Ammaia is the place of origin of today's Aramenha in the Marvão district . It can therefore be assumed that today's location was only created in the Middle Ages.

The Cathedral of Portalegre (port .: Sé )

Portalegre was first mentioned in 1229, as a municipality in the Marvão district. 1253 has already been performed as a seat of its own district, and in 1259 it received the first town charter by King D.Afonso III . King D Dinis extended the earlier fortifications of the place considerably in 1290 in connection with the dispute with his brother.

In the revolution of 1383 the governor of Portalegre, D.Pedro, sided with Castile . However, the population sided with the Portuguese independence movement and drove D. Pedro, who had to flee to Crato , and then took part in the Battle of Aljubarrota on August 14, 1385 on the side of Castile, where he was killed.

Portalegre became a bishopric on August 21, 1549, and on May 23, 1550 King D. João III. the place to the city ( Cidade ). Portalegre was one of the most important cloth production facilities in the country, together with Estremoz and Covilhã , to which the originally Jewish community of the place also contributed in Portalegre , which were subject to special taxes in Portugal and thus had importance for the state finances.

As part of the mercantilist policy of the Prime Minister, the Margrave of Pombal (Portuguese: Marquês de Pombal ), a textile workshop was founded in a former Jesuit monastery in the 18th century, which gave the place a further boost as a textile location. There is now a tapestry factory ( Manufactura de Tapeçarias ) there.

During the Liberal Revolution of 1822 Portalegre was mostly on the side of the Liberals. When the new Liberal government in 1835 as part of its administrative reforms created the districts in Portugal, next was Évora not historically significant, but seasoned in the revolution on the part of absolutists Elvas capital of a district, but Portalegre.

The arrival of the English industrialist George Robinson, who founded a factory for processing cork here in 1848, and the development of his own weaving technology in Portalegre in 1940, with the subsequent establishment of the aforementioned carpet manufacturer Manufactura de Tapeçaria in 1947, contributed to the continued importance of the city in the structurally weak upper Alentejo at.

Culture and sights

Listed places

The listed historic Café Alentejano
In the Portalegre Cork Museum

Numerous archaeological excavations and finds can be seen in the circle. In addition to Palaeolithic sites, a number of Neolithic tombs ( port .: Antas ) can be seen, including the Anta do Tapadão and other megalithic sites .

A large number of town houses from the 16th and 17th centuries bear witness to the prosperity that wool processing, tapestry manufacture and silk weaving once made possible here. The 228 official monuments also include u. a. modernist public and private buildings, fountains, mansions , gardens, and sacred buildings from different epochs, including the three-aisled Mannerist cathedral from the 16th century, with azulejo sacristies, rocailles carvings , Mannerist altarpieces and a variety of Mannerist paintings.

The Plátano de Portalegre tree, planted in 1838, is considered to be the tree with the largest treetop in the Iberian Peninsula. The plane tree is located in a small inner-city garden, which, together with the protected tree, is a listed building.

The historic town center is also a listed building. The most striking places include u. a. the central squares Praça do Rossio and Praça do Município and the town hall ( Câmara Municipal ) from the 18th century. The old town, which is surrounded by the medieval city wall, is partially traffic-calmed and has a pleasantly relaxed effect.

Museums

  • The city museum Museu Municipal shows, in addition to exhibits relevant to the city, sacred art , faience and azulejos , furniture and contemporary Portuguese painting. It also includes two curious collections: on the one hand around 700 exhibits of depictions of Anthony of Padua , who is revered in this country as Santo António de Lisboa or just Santa António , and on the other hand a collection of snuff boxes .
  • The Museu José Régio is dedicated to the life and work of the writer José Régio , and it shows his ethnographic collection. It is housed in the house where Régio lived as a high school teacher in Portalegre for 34 years. A collection of religious sculptures can also be seen here.
  • In the Museu de Tapeçarias de Portalegre Guy Fino , permanent exhibitions on the tradition of wool carpet manufacture in Portalegre are shown on the ground floor, while the chronological development of carpet art through to contemporary wool art is shown on the upper floor. Among the exhibited artists are Le Corbusier , Almada Negreiros , Jean Lurçat , Eduardo Nery , Júlio Pomar , and others. a. The museum, which translates as the Portalegrisches Carpet Museum Guy Fino , was given its name in recognition of the great commitment with which the French carpet manufacturer Guy Fino, who settled here from the mid-1940s, contributed to the spread and further development of the special carpet knotting technique that Manuel do Carmo Peixeiro in Portalegre in 1940.
  • The history of cork production is presented in the Museu da Cortiça . It is housed in the partially still functioning factory Fabrica Cortiçeira Robinson

administration

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Portalegre is the administrative seat of a district of the same name that borders on Spain to the east . The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Castelo de Vide , Marvão , Arronches , Monforte and Crato .

Portalegre City Hall ( Câmara Municipal )

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from ten to seven.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Portalegre district:

Portalegre county
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Alagoa 669 18.16 37 121401
Alegrete 1,746 86.92 20th 121402
Fortios 2,018 65.85 31 121404
Reguengo e São Julião 972 72.19 13 121412
Ribeira de Nisa e Carreiras 1,949 50.43 39 121413
Sé e São Lourenço 15,642 23.61 663 121411
Urra 1.934 129.98 15th 121410
Portalegre county 24,930 447.14 56 1214

Population development

Population in Portalegre County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2004 2011
9852 9877 18,711 23,922 28,384 27,313 26,111 25,980 24,756 24,930

Municipal holiday

  • 23. May

Town twinning

climate

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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: Website of the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosphera
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Portalegre
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 11.6 12.9 16.3 17.3 21st 26.8 30.5 30.5 26.6 20.2 14.9 12.1 O 20.1
Min. Temperature (° C) 5.7 6.2 8.2 8.6 11.3 15.3 17.4 17.7 16.2 12.8 9.1 6.7 O 11.3
Precipitation ( mm ) 109.6 95.5 63.3 78.4 67.5 31.6 7.5 8.5 42.1 97.5 114.9 136 Σ 852.4
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economy

The textile industry is traditionally considered to be the main industry in the city, especially wool processing, synthetic fibers and carpet production. In addition, the cork processing, and especially the production of corks , are also u. a. Tinsmiths and bottling plants for soft drinks are located here.

As a district capital and seat of a district, Portalegre is a relatively important administrative city, and as a regional center , trade is also important here.

Agriculture is traditionally an important economic factor in the district. The production of grain (wheat, corn, barley, rye), cork , olive oil , chestnuts and wine are the most important goods in the district, as well as forestry and some livestock .

Portalegre train station

traffic

Long-distance transport

Portalegre train station is ten kilometers outside the city on the Linha do Leste . In 2019, it will be used by a pair of trains a day for passenger transport, and there is a bus connection to the city center. The branch line Ramal de Portalegre to Estremoz , which branches off in Portalegre , was closed in 1990.

The city is located on the IP2 (also European route 802 here), which leads 50 km north to the A23 motorway and 64 km south to the A6 .

Portalegre is integrated into the national bus network of Rede Expressos .

Local transport

Local public transport in the city and in the district is ensured by bus routes operated by Rodoviára do Alentejo, which is part of the Barraqueiro group .

sons and daughters of the town

Filipe Folque

See also

Web links

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

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  1. ↑ a b c 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. ^ Page on the early history of the site on the Portalegre: As Obscuras Origens ( Memento from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 27, 2013
  4. ↑ History page of the Elvas city administration ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 27, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cm-elvas.pt
  5. ↑ Stadtchronik ( Memento from November 20, 2009 on WebCite ), accessed on July 27, 2013
  6. ↑ www.verportugal.pt , accessed July 27, 2013
  7. ↑ History page on Portalegre as origens da cidade ( Memento from January 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 27, 2013
  8. ^ Hans-Peter Burmeister: Portugal . 3rd edition, Dumont Art Travel Guide, Ostfildern 2008, page 299 ( ISBN 978-3-7701-4416-7 )
  9. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on July 28, 2013
  10. ↑ ditto
  11. ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal . 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, page 330 ( ISBN 978-3-7701-7658-8 )
  12. ↑ www.verportugal.pt , accessed on July 28, 2013
  13. ↑ www.lifecooler.com , accessed July 28, 2013
  14. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  15. ↑ List of partnerships Portalegres , Association of Portuguese District Governments (ANMP), accessed on January 5, 2019
  16. ↑ paragraph Economia of entry to Portalegre in the Pathfinder , the online encyclopedia of Porto Editora , accessed on July 27, 2013