Santiago (Seia)

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Santiago
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Santiago (Portugal)
Santiago
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Beiras e Serra da Estrela
District : Guarda
Concelho : Seia
Coordinates : 40 ° 25 ′  N , 7 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 25 ′  N , 7 ° 44 ′  W
Residents: 1205 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 7.43 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 162 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 6270-213
politics
Mayor : José Alberto Amaral Abrantes
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Santiago
Rua de Baixo, nº4
6270-213 Santiago
Website: www.freguesiadesantiago.pt

Santiago is a town and municipality in Portugal .

history

The Roman road from Viseu to Civitas Sena (today Nogueira, a village in the municipality of Seia) passed today's municipality. A bridge has been preserved in the village of Folgosa do Salvador.

The places of today's municipality were officially documented for the first time in the 12th century, in the description of the district of Vila de São Romão , in the royal surveys under Portugal's first king, D. Afonso Henriques . The largest town was Folgosa do Salvador with 29 homes, followed by Santiago with 27. Maceira was the smallest town with only 7 homes and represented the border with Seia County. Santiago became an independent municipality after 1755.

Attractions

Ten registered monuments are among the numerous historical buildings in the municipality . In addition to six churches and chapels and three mansions , the Roman bridge in Folgosa do Salvador should be mentioned.

The Miradouro Santo Amaro viewpoint offers a wide view of the municipality and the entire district.

Population development of the municipality of Santiago (1864–2011)

administration

Santiago is a parish ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Seia , in the Guarda district . On June 30, 2011 the community had 1205 inhabitants in an area of ​​7.4 km².

Afonso Costa (1904)

The following localities are in the municipality of Santiago:

  • Folgosa da Madalena
  • Folgosa de Salvador
  • Maceira (with the district of Vila Branca)
  • Santiago

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Afonso Costa (1871–1937), lawyer, university professor and politician, three-time Prime Minister
  • Miguel Dias Leitão (1886–1980), poet and journalist

Web links

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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ a b Entry of the Roman Bridge of Santiago in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on March 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Portrait of the municipality with historical data on the website of the Municipal Council of Santiago, accessed on March 7, 2015