Sao Pedro da Cova
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| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Porto metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | postage | |||||
| Concelho : | Gondomar | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 9 ′ N , 8 ° 31 ′ W | |||||
São Pedro da Cova is a small town and a former municipality ( freguesia ) in northern Portugal . It has 16,465 inhabitants (as of 2011) and is about 10 km from the city of Porto , to whose metropolitan area it belongs.
history
The first records of São Pedro da Cova date back to 1138: the place appears as the administrative seat of the Couto de S. Pedro da Cova in a deed of donation with which Portugal's first king Afonso Henriques gave territories to the Bishop of Porto. King Afonso III. 1379 confirmed the donation of the São Pedro da Cova district, which was part of the judicial district of Gondomar.
In 1795, significant coal deposits were discovered in São Pedro da Cova.
São Pedro da Cova remained the seat of an independent district until it was dissolved in the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the Miguelistenkrieg in 1836. Since then, São Pedro da Cova has been a municipality in the Gondomar district.
By the end of the Second World War in 1945, the São Pedro da Cova coal mines grew to become the most important mining location in Portugal. At times around 1,800 people worked here and produced up to 70% of Portuguese coal production. After that, the output decreased, in 1970 the mine was closed.
Despite the mine closure, São Pedro da Cova continued to experience significant economic development and corresponding urbanization . From 1945 the Estado Novo regime planned a progressive social housing estate here for the first time. The plans developed between 1958 and 1961 by the architects Nuno Teotónio Pereira and Nuno Portas (father of the politician Paulo Portas ) gave concrete form to the project, which was not implemented afterwards.
On June 30, 1989, the place was raised to a small town ( Vila ).
With the administrative reorganization in Portugal in 2013 , the municipality of São Pedro da Cova was dissolved and merged with the municipality of Fânzeres to form the new municipality of Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova .
Culture and sights
The 38.5 meter high winding tower Cavalete Poço de S. Vicente , built in 1935, is considered a landmark of São Pedro da Cova and reminds of the history of the place as an important coal site. Today it is a listed building. The mines opened in 1802 and reached their peak during World War II. In 1970 they were discontinued. The Museu Mineiro de São Pedro da Cova - Casa da Malta today commemorates this part of the local history.
A large number of cultural, sports and music clubs are active in the former municipality. The community website lists 28 existing civic associations, including a hunting club, a carrier pigeon club, folk dance groups, orchestras and music schools, as well as a number of sports clubs, a boy scout group and a group of friends to remember the coal history of the community.
The parish church Igreja Matriz de São Pedro da Cova was inaugurated on September 22nd, 1963 and replaced the earlier church from 1860. It combines modernity with classical church buildings in an extraordinary way.
administration
São Pedro da Cova is a former parish ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Gondomar in the district of Porto . The community had an area of 13.9 km² and 16,465 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The place was raised on June 30, 1989 to Vila (German: small town ).
The community consisted only of the place of the same name. However, in the course of the 20th century, this had grown together from 15 places that have remained as districts or districts to this day:
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As part of the territorial reform of September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of São Pedro da Cova and Fânzeres were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova .
politics
In the local elections since the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the social democratic PS was initially successful, so that in 1976 and 1979 it provided the mayor of the municipality ( Presidente da Junta de Freguesia ). After that, the communist electoral alliance CDU always emerged from the local elections as the stronger party, so that it has provided the mayor ever since. The only exception was the local elections in 1997, when the liberal-conservative PSD became the strongest force and provided the mayor once (as of March 2018).
Pedro Miguel Teixeira Martins Vieira (CDU) has been mayor of the community since 2009 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Henrique Hilário (* 1975), soccer goalkeeper and coach, with Chelsea FC since 2006, goalkeeping coach there since 2016
- Cláudia Pascoal (* 1994), singer, represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia São Pedro da Cova at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Entry on São Pedro da Cova in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry of the drafts for the workers' housing estate of São Pedro da Cova in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 15, 2018
- ^ History of the parish of São Pedro da Cova on the website of the new parish of Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova, accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ Entry on Mina de São Pedro da Cova / Cavalete de São Vicente in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ List of civic associations on the website of the municipality of Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova , accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ Information on the Igreja Matriz de São Pedro da Cova in the list of architectural monuments , website of the municipal administration of Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova, accessed on March 15, 2018
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014