Touro (Vila Nova de Paiva)
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Dão-Lafoes | |||||
| District : | Viseu | |||||
| Concelho : | Vila Nova de Paiva | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 54 ′ N , 7 ° 45 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 918 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 50.17 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 18 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 3650-081 | |||||
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| Mayor : | (Mario Jorge Martinho Morgado) ( PS ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Touro Rua da Igreja 3650-081 Touro |
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Touro is a place and a municipality in northern Portugal .
history
The oldest archaeological finds in the community are stone tombs from the 7th to 10th centuries AD.
From 1514 to 1836, i.e. the administrative reforms under King D. Manuel I to the territorial reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , Touro was a municipality in the Vila Cova à Coelheira district . Since its dissolution in 1836, Touro has belonged to the Vila Nova de Paiva district.
administration
Touro is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vila Nova de Paiva , in the Viseu district . 918 inhabitants live in it on an area of 50 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
The following localities are in the municipality:
- Adomingueiros
- Avesseira
- Cerdeira
- Laje Gorda
- Póvoa
- Touro
- Viduinho
Sons and daughters of the church
- Cláudio Ramos (* 1991), soccer goalkeeper
- Alberto Cosme do Amaral (1916–2005), Bishop of Leiria-Fátima
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Touro at the municipality of Vila Nova de Paiva
- Photos from Touro on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ Entry of the granite burial site of Touro in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA , accessed on June 19, 2015.
- ^ Website of the municipality of Toure at the district administration of Vila Nova de Paiva, accessed on June 19, 2015
Freguesias in the concelho Vila Nova de Paiva