Porto de Mós

Porto de Mós
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Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Region of Leiria
District :	Leiria
Concelho :	Porto de Mós
Coordinates :	39 ° 36 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 36 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W
Residents:	24,342 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	261.83 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	93 inhabitants per km²
Porto de Mós district
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Residents:	24,342 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	261.83 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	93 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	10
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Porto de Mós Praça da Republica 2480-851 Porto de Mós
President of the Câmara Municipal:	João Salgueiro ( PS )
Website:	www.municipio-portodemos.pt

Porto de Mós is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in the Portuguese region of Centro with 24,342 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

View of Porto de Mós and its castle

history

Part of the Roman road in Alqueidão da Serra

The oldest local finds date back 150 million years, including dinosaur bones and a fossilized turtle. Excavations and finds prove a settlement by humans since the Paleolithic , through the Neolithic and the Copper Age , up to the arrival of the Romans in the 2nd century BC. They named the place Portus Mollis and shipped from here, on the then navigable Lena , especially raw materials from the nearby quarries and the iron ore mines of Alqueidão da Serra .

The current place developed around the fortress that Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , conquered in 1140 and again in 1148. He handed it over to the knight Fuas Roupinho , who initially successfully defended it against a new conquest by the Moors . In 1182 the town and castle were destroyed by the troops of King Gamir of Mérida before Fuas Roupinho succeeded in retaking it. Sancho I had the castle rebuilt in 1200, which was renewed and expanded in 1450 by the Count of Ourém .

In 1305 King D Dinis granted the town town rights ( Foral ), which were renewed by King Manuel I in 1515 .

Culture and sights

The monuments of the district include u. a. historical public buildings, a large number of sacred buildings , the castle, some Roman and other bridges, Roman road sections, and the characteristic Arco da Memória (German: memorial arch), a stone gate built in the 16th century to delimit two administrative areas (so-called Coutos ). The historic center of Porto de Mós as a whole is also a listed building.

In the caves ( Grutas ) of Mira Daire

The Gruta dos Moinhos Velhos is the largest known cave in Portugal with a length of 8,000 meters discovered to date, and is also known as Grutas de Mira Daire , after its location in the municipality of Mira de Aire .

The Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros was established in 1979 and is partly located in the Porto de Mós district. Viewpoints (Miradouros) and themed hiking trails (e.g. the Jardim Jurássico prehistoric park ) have been created. A donkey reserve has also been set up here. a. with opportunities for donkey rides.

The Museu de Historia Natural is dedicated to mineralogy, geology, archeology and ethnography,

In the municipality of Calvaria de Cima , a visitor center has been set up at Campo Militar de S. Jorge to commemorate the battle of Aljubarrota , which was decisive for Portuguese independence and which took place here on August 14, 1385.

administration

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Porto de Mós is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Leiria , Batalha , Torres Novas , Santarém and Alcobaça .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 13 to ten.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Porto de Mós district:

Porto de Mós district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Alqueidão da Serra	1,755	22.10	79	101602
Alvados e Alcaria	741	33.31	22nd	101615
Arrimal e Mendiga	1,704	38.63	44	101616
Calvaria de Cima	2,462	10.72	230	101605
Juncal	3,316	26.64	124	101606
Mira de Aire	3,775	15.62	242	101608
Pedreiras	2,705	13.22	205	101609
Porto de Mós - São João Baptista e São Pedro	6,023	28.19	214	101614
São Bento	835	41.30	20th	101610
Serro Ventoso	1,026	32.10	32	101613
Porto de Mós district	24,342	261.83	93	1016

Population development

Population in the district of Porto de Mós (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2004	2011
10,742	9,801	12,554	16,296	21,220	21,700	23,343	24,271	24,775	24,342

Municipal holiday

• June 29th

Sons and daughters

• Vítor Manuel Trigueiros Crespo (* 1932), naval officer, participant in the Carnation Revolution and later Minister
• Luís Amado (* 1953), economist and politician, former foreign minister

Web links

Commons : Porto de Mós  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

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.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on March 3, 2013
4. ↑ www.verportugal.com , accessed March 3, 2013
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6. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on March 2, 2013
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9. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed March 3, 2013
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13. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014