Torres Novas (Portugal)

Torres Novas
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Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Médio Tejo
District :	Santarém
Concelho :	Torres Novas
Coordinates :	39 ° 21 ′  N , 8 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 21 ′  N , 8 ° 29 ′  W
Residents:	36,717 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	269.99 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	136 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2350
politics
Mayor :	Luís Gaspar Lopes (São Pedro) António Pedro dos Santos Morte (Santa Maria) Manuel Armando dos Santos Rodrigues (Salvador) Maria Manuela Santos Silva Sá (Santiago)
Torres Novas district
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Residents:	36,717 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	269.99 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	136 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	10
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Torres Novas Rua General António César de Vasconcelos Correia 2350-421 Torres Novas
President of the Câmara Municipal:	António Manuel Oliveira Rodrigues
Website:	www.cm-torresnovas.pt

View of Torres Novas

Torres Novas [ ˈtoʁɯʃ ˈnɔvɐʃ ] is a city in Portugal . The historical name of the region was Lisboa e Vale do Tejo .

In 2014, one of the oldest human bones was found in the Gruta da Aroeira cave in the Torres Novas district, the 400,000-year-old Aroeira-3 skull .

history

Here was a small Roman village in the province of Lusitania . A villa was excavated here with the Vila Cardilium .

The archaeological site of Vila Cardílio

The present-day place was created during the Christian conquests of the Moors , the Reconquista . Portugal's first king, D. Afonso Henriques , conquered the area for the first time in 1148. After an Arab reconquest, King D. Sancho I finally took possession of the area for Portugal, repopulated the place and in 1190 gave it its first town charter. In later epochs royal councils ( Cortes ) were convened here twice . The first took place in 1438, for advice after the death of King D. Duarte , and a second time in 1535, to negotiate the marriage contract between Emperor Charles V and the Portuguese Princess Isabel .

In the course of the Miguelistenkrieg in 1834, the civil war parties of the liberals and the absolutist Miguelists met in Torres Novas.

On August 14, 1985, the previous small town ( Vila ) Torres Novas was elevated to a city ( Cidade ).

administration

Torres Novas district

Torres Novas is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Santarém district . On June 30, 2011, the district had 36,717 inhabitants on an area of ​​270 km².

The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Ourém , Tomar , Vila Nova da Barquinha , Entroncamento , Golegã , Santarém and Alcanena .

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Torres Novas district:

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 17 to ten.

Torres Novas district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Assentiz	2,921	32.82	89	141902
Brogueira, Parceiros de Igreja e Alcorochel	2,829	42.07	67	141918
Chancelaria	1,659	35.37	47	141904
Meia Via	1,667	4.09	408	141917
Olaia e Paço	2,409	29.58	81	141919
Pedrógão	2,037	39.34	52	141909
Riachos	5,247	14.57	360	141910
Torres Novas (Santa Maria, Salvador e Santiago)	8,246	39.65	208	141920
Torres Novas (São Pedro), Lapas e Ribeira Branca	8,674	21.99	394	141921
Zibreira	1,028	10.51	98	141916
Torres Novas district	36,717	269.99	136	1419

Population development

Population in the Torres Novas district (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011	2013
16,494	16.002	35,460	33,892	36,732	37,399	37,692	36,908	36,717	36,338

Municipal holiday

• Ascension of Christ

Town twinning

• Ribeira Grande , Cape Verde (since 1997)
• Manatuto , East Timor (since 2002)

View of the Riachos / Torres Novas / Golegã train station

traffic

The place is located on the most important railway connection in the country, the Linha do Norte . His train station is just outside, in the municipality of Riachos.

The motorway junction between the A1 and the A23 bears the name of Torres Novas, and the town has its own direct exit with junction 3 of the A23.

Torres Novas is integrated into the national long-distance bus network of Rede Expressos .

economy

With Renova , one of the most important international companies in the paper industry is based in Torres Novas.

Carlos Reis

sons and daughters of the town

• Manuel Álvares (1580–1617), Jesuit missionary in West Africa
• António César de Vasconcelos Correia (1797–1865), aristocratic military man and politician
• Carlos Reis (1863–1940), painter
• Manuel Mendes da Conceição Santos (1876–1955), Archbishop of Évora
• Maria Lamas (1893–1983), author, translator, journalist and women's rights activist
• Rafael Duque (1893–1969), lawyer loyal to the regime and landowner
• Humberto Delgado (1906–1965), general and politician, important opponent of the Salazar dictatorship
• João Alves (1925–2013), Bishop of Coimbra
• José Augusto Torres (1938–2010), soccer player, national player at the 2006 World Cup , national coach at the 1986 World Cup
• Carlos Cruz (* 1942), TV presenter, most prominent name in the Casa Pia abuse scandal
• Joana Fartaria (* 1978), actress and theater director

literature

• Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 p. 118

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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.verportugal.net , accessed on January 21, 2014
4. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
5. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on November 14, 2013
6. ↑ Municípios Portugueses: Geminações de Cidades e Vilas , accessed on January 7, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Torres Novas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration