Várzea (Arouca)
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Norte | |||||
Sub-region : | Porto metropolitan area | |||||
District : | Aveiro | |||||
Concelho : | Arouca | |||||
Coordinates : | 40 ° 55 ′ N , 8 ° 18 ′ W | |||||
Residents: | 540 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 1.79 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 302 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Postal code : | 4540-677 | |||||
politics | ||||||
Mayor : | Mário Rui Rocha Brandão de Almeida ( PSD ) | |||||
Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Várzea Igreja 4540-677 Várzea |
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Website: | www.varzea.aroucanet.com |
Várzea is a village and municipality in Portugal .
history
Finds prove a settlement at least since the Castro culture , then Romans settled here. Excavations of a Roman country estate in Malafaia confirm its existence until the Visigothic Empire and possibly until the arrival of the Moors from 711 AD. The first officially documented mention of the place comes from a deed of purchase from 1101.
Today's parish church Igreja Paroquial de Várzea de São Salvador (also Igreja de São Roque after its patron saint ) has its origins in the 12th century, when it first functioned as a monastery of an Augustinian order.
Around 1900 the community was dissolved and Urrô was annexed to be an independent community again since the 1930s.
administration
Várzea is a parish ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Arouca , in the district of Aveiro . 540 inhabitants live in it (as of June 30, 2011).
A number of villages and districts make up the municipality of Várzea, including:
- Malafaia
- Marecos
- Sanfins
- Zendo
Web links
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
- ^ History of the parish on the parish website , accessed April 25, 2015
- ^ Entry of the parish church in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on April 25, 2015