Torreira

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Torreira
coat of arms map
Torreira coat of arms
Torreira (Portugal)
Torreira
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Aveiro Region
District : Aveiro
Concelho : Murtosa
Coordinates : 40 ° 46 ′  N , 8 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′  N , 8 ° 43 ′  W
Residents: 2745 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 31.46 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 87 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3870-323
politics
Mayor : Lucinda Matos Leite Barbosa
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Torreira
Av. Hintze Ribeiro, nº. 30
3870 - 323 Torreira
Website: www.jf-torreira.pt

Torreira is a place and a municipality in northern Portugal .

View from the pousada to the Ria, here with flamingos

The municipality is located on a narrow strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Ria de Aveiro . The place is one of the centers of fishing on the Beira Litoral .

Nationally known are the listed pousada "Pousada da Ria" , the beach Praia da Torreira and the celebrations in honor of the local saint Pelagius of Córdoba , which take place every year on September 8th.

history

The first mention goes back to a deed of donation from the year 1283, with which King D. Dinis bequeathed the Gelfa promontory (then Guelfa ) to the nobleman Pedro Bermutes, which mainly consisted of dunes . However, a village only emerged with the increasing silting up of the area, when fishermen from the region set up tool sheds and anchorages and stayed here more and more often, probably not until the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century. The first small church was built in 1732.

administration

Population development in the municipality of Torreira (1864–2011)

Torreira is one of four parishes ( freguesia ) of the district ( concelho ) of Murtosa , in the Aveiro district . In Torreira live on an area of ​​31.5 km² 2745 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

The community consists only of the village of the same name.

The Pousada da Ria, built in 1960

Web links

Commons : Torreira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Entry of the Pousada da Ria (also Pousada de São Jacinto ) in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on July 30, 2016
  4. ↑ Website on the history of Torreira of the municipality of Torreira, accessed on July 30, 2016
  5. ↑ Entry of the chapel Capela de São Paio (which was built in 1878 on the ruins of the chapel built in 1732) in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on July 30, 2016