Torres Vedras

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Torres Vedras
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Torres Vedras coat of arms
Torres Vedras (Portugal)
Torres Vedras
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Oeste
District : Lisbon
Concelho : Torres Vedras
Coordinates : 39 ° 5 ′  N , 9 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 5 ′  N , 9 ° 16 ′  W
Residents: 79,465 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 407.15 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 195 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2560
Torres Vedras county
flag map
Flag of Torres Vedras Location of the Torres Vedras district
Residents: 79,465 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 407.15 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 195 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 13
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Torres Vedras
Avenida 5 de Outubro
2560-270 Torres Vedras
President of the Câmara Municipal: Carlos Manuel Soares Miguel ( PS )
Website: www.cm-tvedras.pt

Torres Vedras is a city ( Cidade ) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 79,465 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). It is located in the Oeste sub-region and belongs to the historical province of Estremadura . The place is also known in Portugal for its wine production and also became part of the Rede de Judiarias , an association of Portuguese places with historically significant Jewish communities, who also operate a joint tourist marketing with it.

View over Torres-Vedras

history

Various prehistoric finds prove that the area was inhabited for a long time by humans. Tamuja was the likely pre-Christian name of the place. According to various historians, the place was either called Turres Veteres by the Romans , which was adopted by the following Goths and Suebi , or the Visigoths called the place that to differentiate it from Torres Novas . After the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Arabs in 711 , the place lost all meaning, so that today's district was only sparsely populated when Portugal's first king D.Afonso Henriques conquered it from the Moors in 1148 . After the subsequent settlement, the place received city rights ( Foral ) for the first time in 1250 by King D.Afonso III. At that time, Torres Vedras was already forming an independent administrative district.

In 1413 King D. João I met here with his council to discuss the venture of a first expedition to North Africa. The subsequent successful capture of Ceuta in 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese voyages of discovery . Since its expulsion from Spain in 1492, Torres Vedras has also hosted an important Jewish community. In 1510 King Manuel I renewed the town charter and elevated the place to a vila (small town with administrative rights).

In the fortifications of the Linhas de Torres

With the lines of Torres Vedras , a fortification line was built from 1809 in connection with the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , in order to serve as a barrier and retreat area in the event of a renewed invasion of Portugal by Napoleon's armies. The Linhas de Torres Vedras became a key reason for the failure of the French invasions. In 2012, this historic episode was filmed by the Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento under the title Lines of Wellington - Storm over Portugal (movie) or Linhas de Torres Vedras (TV multi-part). a. Mathieu Amalric , John Malkovich , Soraia Chaves and Nuno Lopes .

1979 Torres Vedras was elevated to a city (Cidade).

Culture and sights

Among the numerous monuments in the district are the remains of the fortress of Linhas de Torres Vedras , the medieval castle Castelo de Torres Vedras , and the historic town center. In addition there are u. a. a variety of religious buildings , fountains, and historical public buildings.

With the Neolithic - Copper Age grave caves ( Gruta artificial da época calcolítica em Ermigeira ), the protected landscape of western Estremadura and the city park and former monastery garden Jardim da Graça , several other places beyond buildings are also protected. The Tholos do Barro , a Copper Age domed tomb, is located on Monte da Pena, near an old quarry in the village of Barro, and is another of various prehistoric archaeological sites. Many of these archeological findings of the circle (Concelho) of Torres Vedras, are from the Paleolithic Age (Paleolithic) to modern times, as well as various paintings, sculptures, capitals and other architectural ornaments, weapons and historical documents in the Museu Municipal Leonel Trindade de Torres Vedras kept and shown in exhibitions. The museum is housed in the former Convento da Graça monastery on the southern edge of the city center and also shows foreign traveling exhibitions.

The district also has various sandy beaches developed for tourism, and Torres Vedras is also known for its carnival. Thermal baths can also be found in the municipality of Maceira .

Sports

The monument to Joaquim Agostinho in Torres Vedras

The football club SC União Torreense , which played six seasons in the first division between 1955 and 1992, and the Associação de Educação Física e Desportiva , primarily known as "Física", whose basketball team was in the second and its roller hockey team, are of national importance. a professionally practiced sport that is relatively important in Portugal and plays in the first division.

The Praia de Santa Cruz beach

On the beach Praia do Mirante , in the town of Santa Cruz (municipality of A dos Cunhados ), an international surfing competition is organized with the Santa Cruz Ocean Spirit .

Joaquim Agostinho

The agostinhas of municipal bike rental

Since 1978, the Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras has been a stage cycle race that has been part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005 . It is dedicated to the cyclist Joaquim Agostinho , who was born in Brejenjas in the Torres Vedras district in 1943 and died after falling during the Algarve Tour in 1984. In 2013, the city acquired an office building which, within two years, will be used to build a museum in honor of Agostinho, to which Agostinho's families and those of his teammates will contribute mementos. In addition, in May 2013, the participants of the International Cycling History Conference inaugurated a new public bike rental system , the bikes of which were named Agostinhas . A red wine called Terras de Agostinho is produced in Torres Vedras .

administration

The former Asilo de Inválidos Militares hospital and soldiers' rest home in the municipality of Runa

The circle

Torres Vedras is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Lourinhã , Cadaval , Alenquer , Sobral de Monte Agraço , Mafra and the Atlantic .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 20 to 13.

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Torres Vedras district:

Torres Vedras county
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
A dos Cunhados e Maceira 10,391 52.72 197 111321
Campelos e Outeiro da Cabeça 3,667 29.96 122 111322
Carvoeira e Carmoes 2,414 20.97 115 111323
Dois Portos e Runa 3.128 43.23 72 111324
Freiria 2,461 13.43 183 111306
Maxial e Monte Redondo 3,546 38.39 92 111325
Ponte do Rol 2,444 9.67 253 111310
Ramalhal 3,472 36.84 94 111311
Sao Pedro da Cadeira 5,077 23.85 213 111314
Silveira 8,530 24.97 342 111316
Torres Vedras e Matacães 25,717 62.44 412 111326
Turcifal 3,342 24.70 135 111317
Ventosa 5,276 25.98 203 111318
Torres Vedras county 79,465 407.15 195 1113

Population development

Population in the Torres Vedras district (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
17,244 15,021 35,726 47,917 58,837 65,039 67.185 72,250 79,465

Town twinning

traffic

Torres Vedras train station in the evening
Regional train at Torres Vedras station

Long-distance transport

Torres Vedras is integrated into the rail network of Portugal with its train station on the Linha do Oeste railway line and is connected to the country's motorway network with its two junctions on the A8 motorway. Long-distance buses run from the city's bus station to cities to the north and south, e.g. B. to the bus station Campo Grande in Lisbon.

Urban transport

The municipal transport company TUT - Transportes Urbanos de Torres Vedras , in cooperation with the Barraqueiro Group, operate four color-coded minibus routes that cover the urban area.

sons and daughters of the town

Politics, religion and history

Culture area

  • Aurélio Ricardo Belo (1877–1961), museum director from 1932 to 1960.
  • Rafael Salinas Calado (), museum director from 1929 to 1932.
  • Leonel Trindade (full name: Leonel de Freitas Sampaio Trindade) (1903–1992), museum director 1969 to 1992, discoverer of the Copper Age fortified settlement of Zambujal .

Sports area

literature

Web links

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

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. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, page 254f ( ISBN 978-972-46-1730-5 )
  4. ↑ www.imdb.de , accessed on January 27, 2013
  5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 27, 2013
  6. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on January 27, 2013
  7. ↑ ditto
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  13. ↑ www.carnavaldetorres.com , accessed January 27, 2013
  14. ↑ www.oceanspirit.pt , accessed February 8, 2013
  15. ↑ World's newest bike share scheme is named after Tour de France rider on bikebiz.com v. May 17, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bikebiz.com
  16. ↑ amovinhos.blogspot.de
  17. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  18. ↑ Torres Vedras ( Memento of April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 27, 2013