Sao João da Pesqueira

Sao João da Pesqueira
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Douro
District :	Viseu
Concelho :	Sao João da Pesqueira
Coordinates :	41 ° 9 ′  N , 7 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 9 ′  N , 7 ° 24 ′  W
Residents:	2189 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	43.17 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km²
São João da Pesqueira district
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Residents:	7874 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	266.13 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	30 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	11
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de São João da Pesqueira Av. Marquês de Soveral 5130-321 São João da Pesqueira
President of the Câmara Municipal:	José António Fontão Tulha
Website:	cm-sjpesqueira.espigueiro.pt

Portal of the Igreja da Misericórdia Church (next to the historic hospital)

São João da Pesqueira is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 2189 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). It belongs to the Alto Douro wine-growing region , which has been the world's first protected wine-growing region since 1756 . This has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 .

history

Dolmens and ramparts are evidence of prehistoric settlement up to the Castro culture . King Alfonso III (Asturias) conquered the place from the Moors in the 9th century and had it repopulated. Between 1055 and 1065 the place received its first city rights from Ferdinand I (León) . São João da Pesqueira received its first city rights in the independent kingdom of Portugal in 1198 from King Sancho I , which were confirmed in 1376 and renewed in 1510.

The 16th century hospital in the town's central square, Praça da República

Culture and sights

The district's monuments include historical public buildings, mansions and sacred buildings , including the historic hospital with its single-nave church, the Igreja (e Hospital) da Misericórdia de São João da Pesqueira , which was originally built in the 16th century, and baroque altars gilt wood ( Talha dourada ) and Altarretabel of Rococo holds. The historic town center as a whole is also a listed building.

Some sections of the landscape along the Douro are protected. Various hiking trails lead through the district, some of them themed, such as the Rotas dos Vinhos da Europa wine route (English: routes of European wines). Signposted hiking trails also lead along the archaeological excavations, prehistoric finds and rock paintings in the district.

administration

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São João da Pesqueira is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Alijó , Carrazeda de Ansiães , Vila Nova de Foz Côa , Penedono , Sernancelhe , Tabuaço and Sabrosa .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 14 to eleven.

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the São João da Pesqueira district:

São João da Pesqueira district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Castanheiro do Sul	439	20.40	22nd	181501
Ervedosa do Douro	1,294	40.24	32	181502
Nagozelo do Douro	414	7.89	52	181504
Paredes da Beira	629	20.56	31	181505
Riodades	462	20.07	23	181507
São João da Pesqueira e Várzea de Trevões	2,380	53.27	45	181515
Soutelo do Douro	459	17.80	26th	181509
Trevões e Espinhosa	696	30.13	23	181516
Vale de Figueira	462	16.47	28	181511
Valongo dos Azeites	227	4.56	50	181512
Vilarouco e Pereiros	412	34.74	12	181517
São João da Pesqueira district	7,874	266.13	30th	1815

Population development

Population in the São João da Pesqueira district (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
3,203	5,734	12,505	12,764	15,124	10,219	9581	8653	7932

Municipal holiday

• June 24th

Town twinning

•  Portugal : Vila Nova de Gaia (since 1994)

José Maria da Cunha Seixas

Sons and daughters

• José Maria da Cunha Seixas (1836–1895), philosopher
• Paradela de Oliveira (1904–1970), fado singer
• Eduardo Tavares (1918–1991), sculptor
• Álvaro Augusto Veiga de Oliveira (1929–2006), writer and civil engineer, multiple building minister after the Carnation Revolution
• José Augusto Seabra (1937–2004), poet, university professor, diplomat and politician, Minister of Education 1983–85
• Acácio de Almeida (* 1938), cameraman especially for the Novo Cinema

Web links

Commons : São João da Pesqueira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia São João da Pesqueira at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Homepage of São Joao da Pesqueira

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed February 20, 2013
5. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 20, 2013
6. ↑ ditto
7. ↑ ditto
8. ↑ www.sjpesqueira.pt ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2012 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 February 20, 2013 
9. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
10. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed February 20, 2013