Sertã

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Sertã
coat of arms map
Sertã coat of arms
Sertã (Portugal)
Sertã
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Médio Tejo
District : Castelo Branco
Concelho : Sertã
Coordinates : 39 ° 48 ′  N , 8 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 48 ′  N , 8 ° 6 ′  W
Residents: 6196 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 80.95 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 77 inhabitants per km²
politics
Website: www.jfserta.pt
Sertã district
flag map
Flag of Sertã Position of the Sertã district
Residents: 15,880 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 446.73 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 10
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Sertã
Largo do Município
6100-738 Sertã
President of the Câmara Municipal: José Farinha Nunes
Website: www.cm-serta.pt

Sertã [ sɯɾˈtɐ̃ ] is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 6196 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

  • The stake ( Pelourinho ), symbol of the granted city rights (1513)

  • Sertã (engraving from 1640)

  • Aerial view of Sertã and its district

  • View over the municipality of Figueiredo

Finds and excavations, including Antas , prove a settlement of the place at least since the Castro culture . Lusitans lived here when the Romans built a Lusitania Province site and bridge in the first century . The Arabs built a castle here. During the Reconquista and the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal after 1139 , Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , gave the place to the Knights Templar from 1165 to 1174 before handing it over to the Order of Hospital (now the Sovereign Order of Malta ). In the Revolution in 1383 , in which the entitled to inherit the kingdom of Castile sought to annex Portugal, the place was on the side of the Portuguese independence movement under the following King D.João I . In 1455 Sertã became the Vila raised (town) before its first town charter ( Foral ) in 1513 by King Manuel I received. Until the spelling reform in 1911 , the place was now written Certã .

The founding legend of the place

The place is said to have been in the year 74 BC. BC by Quintus Sertorius , who was the leader of the Celtiberian Lusitanians, and had a castle built here. In an attack by the Romans, the then commander of the castle is said to have been killed. His wife Celinda, who stormed out of the kitchen, is said to have climbed onto the castle walls and poured her square pan (the Sertage ) with hot oil over the oncoming Romans, thus surprising and stopping them until the forces hurried to help from the neighboring towns arrived, to drive away the attackers. The place is said to have been called "place of the Sertage", Sertã .

Culture, sports and sights

Sertanense FC football club scarf

The numerous architectural monuments of Sertã include various sacred buildings , historical public buildings, and the castle, as well as the Roman bridge. The historic town center as a whole is also a listed building. At various archaeological excavation sites in the district you can u. a. See rock paintings ( Portuguese : Arte rupreste ).

In addition to the municipal library Biblioteca Municipal Padre Manuel Antunes , the cultural center Clube de Sertã , and the event and cultural complex Casa de Espetáculos e da Cultura da Sertã in the district town of Sertã, there is another notable cultural site in Cernache do Bonjardim with the artist house Atelier Túllio Victorino in a circle.

With Pedrógão Pequeno is located in the district of one of the traditional slate villages in the region, the Aldeias do Xisto . Hiking trails connect them. The football club Sertanense Futebol Clube is the most important sports club in the district. He plays in the third division (group south, port: Série Sul ) and also runs athletics and sport fishing sections.

administration

circle

Sertã is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Pampilhosa da Serra , Oleiros , Proença-a-Nova , Mação , Vila de Rei , Ferreira do Zêzere , Figueiró dos Vinhos and Pedrógão Grande .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 14 to ten.

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Sertã district:

Sertã district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Cabeçudo 957 10.39 92 050901
Carvalhal 465 10.02 46 050902
Carvalhal 1,046 24.57 43 050903
Cernache do Bonjardim, Nesperal e Palhais 3,625 101.59 36 050915
Cumeada e Marmeleiro 731 51.73 14th 050916
Ermida e Figueiredo 423 42.74 10 050917
Pedrógão Pequeno 753 36.86 20th 050911
Sertã 6,196 80.95 77 050912
Troviscal 864 53.37 16 050913
Várzea dos Cavaleiros 820 34.51 24 050914
Sertã district 15,880 446.73 36 0509

Population development

Population of Sertã (1801-2004)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2004
10,235 13,456 20,380 24,057 27,997 21,503 18.199 16,720 16,208

Municipal holiday

  • June 24th

Sons and daughters of Sertã

literature

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. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ↑ www.cm-serta.pt , accessed on February 14, 2013
  5. ↑ a b www.verportugal.net , accessed on February 14, 2013
  6. ↑ www.cm-serta.pt , accessed on February 14, 2013
  7. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 14, 2013
  8. ↑ ditto
  9. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014

Web links

Commons : Sertã  - album with pictures, videos and audio files