Sao Paio de Oleiros

Sao Paio de Oleiros
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Porto metropolitan area
District :	Aveiro
Concelho :	Santa Maria da Feira
Coordinates :	40 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 36 ′  W
Residents:	4069 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	3.91 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	1041 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4535-478
politics
Mayor :	Ana Cristina Pires de Oliveira ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de São Paio de Oleiros Rua Dr. Francisco Valle Guimarães, nº 272 4535-478 São Paio de Oleiros
Website:	www.jf-sp-oleiros.pt

São Paio de Oleiros (sometimes shortened to Oleiros ) is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Santa Maria da Feira . It has 4069 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The animated Christmas crib Presépio Cavalinho in the municipality, which is considered to be the largest in the world, is known nationwide .

The parish church

history

Traces of human settlement go back to the Copper Age . In the Castro culture there were at least two fortified settlements ( Lapa de Cima and Lapa de Baixo ). Not much is known from the subsequent Roman period, nor from the subsequent periods under the Suebi and as part of the Visigoth Empire , and no significant traces have survived from the period of the subsequent Arab rule from 711.

The place was first documented as uilla de olleirolos in 1050. Saint Pelagius ( Portuguese: Santo Pelágio, which changed into today's São Paio) was chosen as the patron saint of the place . That namesake São Paio is said to have been a young man from the time of the Reconquista , who was killed by the Moors in 925 and then venerated as a martyr by the local Christian Mozarabs . The local parish church was called Ecclesia Santi Pelagij de Oleyros in 1200 , in the royal surveys of 1288 it was listed as Sancti Pelagii de Oleyros , and developed through Sam Paayo de Oleiros to the current spelling.

Primary school

1514 the place was given city status by King D. Manuel I . São Paio de Oleiros has been part of the Santa Maria da Feira district since around the time of the Napoleonic invasions at the beginning of the 19th century, with an interruption from 1926 to 1928 when it was part of Espinho . The industry, which began to emerge slowly in the 18th century and became increasingly present from the middle of the 19th century, ensured some development. Mention should be made of the paper manufacture, which has been here since 1758 and has been important since 1811, and the textile industry since the first spinning mill opened in 1855. The arrival of the Linha do Vouga railway line , which King Manuel II inaugurated on November 23, 1908 with a stop in São Paio de Oleiros, and the opening of the regionally important Hospital-Asilo de Nossa Senhora da Saúde on January 6 1909 were further milestones in the development of the place.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Tiago Rocha (* 1985), international handball player

gallery

Partial views of the Presépio Cavalinho nativity scene (November 2013):

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Web links

• Official website of the local government

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. ^ Article dated December 7, 2010 with video on the website of the weekly newspaper Expresso , accessed on June 16, 2014
4. ↑ History page of the community ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2014 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. from the municipal administration website, accessed June 16, 2014