Rates

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Rates
coat of arms map
The coat of arms is still missing Situation map for rates
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Porto metropolitan area
District : postage
Concelho : Póvoa de Varzim
Coordinates : 41 ° 25 ′  N , 8 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 25 ′  N , 8 ° 40 ′  W
Residents: 2505 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 13.9 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 180 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 4570-412
politics
Mayor : Paulo João Silva ( PSD )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Rates
Largo Padre Arnaldo Moreira, 1
4570-412 Council
Website: www.sprates.pt

São Pedro de Rates , or Rates for short , is a place and a municipality in northern Portugal .

Romanesque church of Rates,
an important monastery from 1100

It is the largest and most sparsely populated municipality in the Póvoa de Varzim district . It is traditionally considered to be particularly important, especially as part of the historic Portuguese Way of St. James , the Caminho Português .

history

Rates around 1669
(picture by Pier Maria Baldi )

Henry of Burgundy , the first count of Portugal, founded a new monastery here around 1100 on the basis of a simpler, already existing monastery. it gained some importance and the town council developed in the shadow of the monastery.

After the Council's monastery fell into disrepair in 1515, it was dissolved by King D. Manuel and given to the Order of Christ . As a result, the place experienced an upswing. Tomé de Sousa , member of the order and son of the place (later first Governor General of Brazil), became the first master of the lands of the council. In 1517 the king renewed the town charter of the council after he had come through here on his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and had the later main church of the community built.

In the historic center of Rates

In the course of the various administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , the district council was dissolved in 1836 and the status of a vila (German:  small town ) was revoked, but was granted again on July 2, 1993 under the name of São Pedro de Rates .

administration

Rates is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Póvoa de Varzim in the district of Porto . The municipality has an area of ​​13.9 km² and has 2505 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

Partner municipality

The municipality council and the Brazilian city ​​of Mata de São João have a partnership. The places are connected by the work of Tomé de Sousa , who was born in Council and was the first Governor General of Brazil, and his son.

Statue of Tome de Sousa in Council

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Rates  - Collection of pictures, 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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ^ Rates. (No longer available online.) 360portugal.com, archived from the original on June 20, 2015 ; Retrieved June 5, 2011 (Portuguese). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.360portugal.com
  4. ↑ Information on the municipality council on the website of the Póvoa de Varzim district administration, accessed on February 19, 2016
  5. ^ Page on the history of the municipality council on the website of the council administration, accessed on February 19, 2016
  6. ↑ Page on the communal partnership on the website of the council administration, accessed on February 19, 2016