Santa Marta de Penaguião
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Douro | |||||
| District : | Vila Real | |||||
| Concelho : | Santa Marta de Penaguião | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 13 ′ N , 7 ° 47 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 7356 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 69.28 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 106 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Santa Marta de Penaguião district | ||||||
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| Residents: | 7356 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 69.28 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 106 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Number of municipalities : | 7th | |||||
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| Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Santa Marta de Penaguião Rua dos Combatentes 5030-477 Santa Marta de Penaguião |
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| President of the Câmara Municipal: | Francisco José Guedes Ribeiro ( PS ) | |||||
| Website: | www.cm-smpenaguiao.pt | |||||
Santa Marta de Penaguião is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 7356 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 . It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001 .
history
Finds and excavations prove a settlement of the area at least since the Castro culture . The Romans who settled here also left traces, including a kiln. In 1202 King Sancho I granted the place town rights ( Foral ), which King Manuel I renewed in 1519.
Culture and sights
The architectural monuments include various historical public buildings, stone fountains and sacred buildings , including the parish church Igreja Paroquial de São Miguel de Lobrigos (also Igreja de São Miguel ), which dates back to a first church in the 15th century . The historic town center as a whole is also a listed building.
Various hiking trails lead past villages, miradouros , wineries, old mills and a Roman oven.
administration
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Santa Marta de Penaguião is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Vila Real , Peso da Régua and Amarante .
Santa Marta de Penaguião is the seat of a district, but is not the seat of its own municipality, but belongs to its local parish of São Miguel de Lobrigos. The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Santa Marta de Penaguião district:
With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from ten to seven.
| local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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| Alvações do Corgo | 477 | 4.34 | 110 | 171101 |
| Cumieira | 1,146 | 11.07 | 104 | 171102 |
| Fontes | 835 | 15.67 | 53 | 171103 |
| Lobrigos e Sanhoane | 3,010 | 14.71 | 205 | 171111 |
| Louredo e Fornelos | 669 | 12.17 | 55 | 171112 |
| Medrões | 505 | 5.15 | 98 | 171106 |
| Sever | 714 | 6.17 | 116 | 171110 |
| Santa Marta de Penaguião district | 7,356 | 69.28 | 106 | 1711 |
Population development
| Population in Santa Marta de Penaguião County (1801–2011) | |||||||||
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| 1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | |
| 10,731 | 8535 | 11,422 | 12,532 | 13,282 | 11,194 | 9703 | 8569 | 7356 | |
Municipal holiday
- 13th January
Town twinning
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São Tomé and Príncipe : Lembá (since 2000) -
France : Larçay in the canton of Montlouis-sur-Loire (since 2006)
Sons and daughters
- António Teixeira Rebelo (1750-1825), marshal, founder of the military academy
- Carlos Coutinho (* 1943), journalist and writer, resistance activist against the Estado Novo regime
- Eurico Gomes (* 1955), football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on February 19, 2013
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 19, 2013
- ↑ ditto
- ↑ www.cm-smpenaguiao.pt ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2013 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 19, 2013
- ↑ ditto ( memento of the original dated November 19, 2013 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.
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 19, 2013
