Santo Tirso

Santo Tirso
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Porto metropolitan area
District :	postage
Concelho :	Santo Tirso
Coordinates :	41 ° 21 ′  N , 8 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 21 ′  N , 8 ° 28 ′  W
Residents:	14,072 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	8.88 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	1585 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4780
politics
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Santo Tirso Avenida Sousa Cruz, nº 749 4780-365 Santo Tirso
Website:	www.jf-santotirso.pt
Santo Tirso County
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Residents:	71,530 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	136.61 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	524 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	14th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Santo Tirso Praça 25 de Abril 4780-373 Santo Tirso
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Castro Fernandes ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-stirso.pt

Basílica de Nossa Senhora da Assunção in Santa Tirso

Santo Tirso is a municipality and city in northern Portugal that is very much influenced by viticulture. The community has a population of 14,072 (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The monastery of Santo Tirso

Finds prove a prehistoric settlement. In particular, the excavations on Monte da Assunção, but also the excavated fortress villages from the Castro culture of Monte Padrão and Santa Margarida are worth mentioning. In the 2nd century BC Romans who arrived in BC took the villages and romanized them.

The current location goes back to the founding of a monastery by D. Unisco Godiniz in 978. In 1097, the future King D. Afonso Henriques gave the area of ​​the monastery to Soeiro Mendes da Maia, before it came to the Benedictine monastery of Abbot D. Gaudemiro a year later. In 1833 the area included the parishes of Santo Tirso, São Miguel do Couto and Santa Cristina do Couto. After the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the subsequent Miguelistenkrieg all church orders were dissolved in 1834 and their goods were nationalized. One of the monastery buildings then became the provisional administrative seat of the newly created Santo Tirso district, which covered the previous area of ​​the monastery property.

In the 1970s, many of the residents of Santo Tirso emigrated to Groß-Umstadt in southern Hesse , which still has a large Portuguese minority today.

In 1985 the previous small town ( Vila ) was elevated to a town ( Cidade ). Until 1998 Santo Tirso was one of the most populous districts in the country, until Trofa became independent through outsourcing.

administration

Santo Tirso County

Santo Tirso is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Porto district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 71,530 inhabitants on an area of ​​136.6 km².

The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Vila Nova de Famalicão , Guimarães , Vizela , Lousada , Paços de Ferreira , Valongo , Maia and Trofa .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 24 to 15.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Santo Tirso district:

Santo Tirso County

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Agrela	1,584	6.99	227	131401
Água Longa	2,207	12.87	171	131402
Areias, Sequeiró, Lama e Palmeira	6,795	10.30	659	131433
Campo, São Salvador do Campo e Negrelos	6,809	9.60	710	131434
Carreira e Refojos de Riba de Ave.	2,072	9.49	218	131435
Lamelas e Guimarei	1,660	12.41	134	131436
Monte Cordova	3,958	16.80	236	131413
Rebordões	3,368	4.21	800	131416
Reguenga	1,596	5.00	319	131418
Roriz	3,665	6.17	594	131419
Santo Tirso, Couto e Burgães	21,538	25.22	854	131437
Sao Tome de Negrelos	4.032	6.12	659	131430
Vila das Aves	8,458	6.16	1,373	131405
Vilarinho	3,788	5.27	719	131432
Santo Tirso County	71,530	136.61	524	1314

Population development

Population in Santo Tirso County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
2055	12,779	28,371	41,078	77,130	93,482	102,593	72,396	71,387

Municipal holiday

• July 11th

Town twinning

•  Germany : Groß-Umstadt (since 1988)
•  France : Clichy-la-Garenne (since 1991)
•  Spain : Celanova , Ourense Province , Galicia (since 1992)
•  France : Mâcon (since 1992)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe : Santana (since 1997)
•  Spain : Alcázar de San Juan (since 1997)
•  Brazil : Rio de Janeiro (since 2000)
•  Brazil : Nova Friburgo
•  France : Saint-Péray

sons and daughters of the town

• Rosendo de Celanova (10th century), canonized bishop
• Albino Sousa Cruz (1869–1966), tobacco entrepreneur in Brazil
• Américo Pires de Lima (1886–1966), botanist, doctor and university professor
• António Carneiro Pacheco (1887–1957), lawyer, university professor and politician, Minister of Education in the Estado Novo regime
• Roberto Macedo (1887–1977), judge, publicist and writer
• Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva (1923–2013), Bishop of Lichinga, Mozambique
• Eurico de Melo (1925–2012), engineer and politician ( PSD ), multiple minister
• Eduardo da Costa Macedo (1859–1916), lawyer, publicist and writer
• Hargreaves da Costa Macedo (* 1929), architect
• Alberto Festa (* 1939), soccer player, national player at the 1966 World Cup
• Joaquim Ferreira Lopes (* 1949), Bishop of Viana (Angola)
• Paulo de Sousa Pereira (* 1969), entrepreneur, architect and promoter
• José Gaspar Silva Azevedo (* 1975), football player
• Tiago César Moreira Pereira (* 1975), football player
• Armindo Araújo (* 1977), rally driver
• Ricardo Rocha (* 1978), football player
• Rui Orlando Ribeiro Santos Neto (born 1979), football player
• Pedro da Silva Moutinho (* 1979), football player
• Rui Pedro Silva (* 1981), Olympic track and field athlete
• Bruno Tiago (* 1981), football player
• João Correia (* 1983), handicapped competitive athlete
• Sara Moreira (* 1985), track and field athlete, obstacle runner at the 2008 Olympics
• Licá (* 1988), football player
• João Pedro Pereira Silva (* 1990), football player

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  Figure of Rosendo de Celanova at the Celanova Monastery, which he founded

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  Americo Pires de Lima, bust in the Porto Botanical Garden

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  Roberto Eduardo da Costa Macedo

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  Armindo Araújo at the Acropolis Rally 2011

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  Rui Pedro Silva at the 2009 World Cup in Berlin

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  João Correia at the International Meeting in Ibach (Switzerland)

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  Sara Moreira at the 2010 European Athletics Championships

Web links

Commons : Santo Tirso  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia Santo Tirso at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército

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. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ^ Ferda Ataman : Integration of foreigners: Catholic, hardworking, young. In: Spiegel Online . November 5, 2005, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on March 16, 2014
6. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
7. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on October 26, 2013