Vagos
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Centro | |||||
Sub-region : | Aveiro Region | |||||
District : | Aveiro | |||||
Concelho : | Vagos | |||||
Coordinates : | 40 ° 33 ′ N , 8 ° 41 ′ W | |||||
Residents: | 4566 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 21.51 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 212 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Circle Vagos | ||||||
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Residents: | 22,851 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 164.9 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 139 inhabitants per km² | |||||
Number of municipalities : | 8th | |||||
administration | ||||||
Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Vagos Rua da Saudade 3840-420 Vagos |
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President of the Câmara Municipal: | Rui Miguel Rocha da Cruz | |||||
Website: | www.cm-vagos.pt |
Vagos is a vila (small town) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 4566 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
history
According to some theses, the place was founded by the Phoenicians under the name Vacuus (roughly: thrown out), according to others it was first founded by the Romans as Vacua (after a dried up tributary of the Rio Vouga ). However, large parts of today's district were still under water. Around the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1139 , the sea retreated further. In 1190 King Sancho I granted the town its first town charter ( Foral ), which were renewed by Manuel I in 1514 .
Culture and sights
Among the various architectural monuments of Vagos are in particular wind and water mills and sacred buildings , including the parish church Igreja Paroquial de Vagos (also Igreja de São Tiago ), which dates back to a chapel built in 1452 and after several extensions shows Baroque and Renaissance elements
A nature reserve begins in the north of the district with the Ria de Aveiro lagoon .
With the Museu do Brincar, there is a museum in Vagos in 2012 that is dedicated to childhood and children's play.
The metal festival Vagos Open Air has been taking place here every year since 2009, taking place on August 9th and 10th, 2013 at a new location, the more central Quinta do Ega estate , in front of the city.
administration
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Vagos is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Ílhavo , Aveiro , Oliveira do Bairro , Cantanhede , Mira and the Atlantic Ocean.
With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 11 to eight.
The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in Vagos County:
local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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Calvão | 2.014 | 14.84 | 136 | 011801 |
Fonte de Angeão e Covão do Lobo | 2.165 | 17.55 | 123 | 011812 |
Gafanha da Boa Hora | 2,625 | 37.22 | 71 | 011804 |
Ouca | 1,805 | 16.27 | 111 | 011805 |
Ponte de Vagos e Santa Catarina | 2,781 | 13.32 | 209 | 011813 |
Sosa | 3,069 | 21.69 | 141 | 011807 |
Vagos e Santo António | 6,359 | 31.32 | 203 | 011814 |
Santo André de Vagos | 2,033 | 12.69 | 160 | 011810 |
Circle Vagos | 22,851 | 164.90 | 139 | 0118 |
Population development
Population in Vagos County (1801–2011) | |||||||||
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1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | |
4047 | 6961 | 11,954 | 15,860 | 20,250 | 18,548 | 19,068 | 22,017 | 22,765 |
Municipal holiday
- Whit Monday
Town twinning
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Guinea-Bissau : Bafatá (since 1991)
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Cape Verde : São Vicente (since 1992)
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São Tomé and Príncipe : Trindade (Mé-Zóchi District) (since 1993)
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Brazil : Ceara-Mirim , State of Rio Grande do Norte (since 1999)
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France : Léon (Landes) (since 2000)
sons and daughters of the town
- João Grave (1872–1934), writer and journalist
- Ramiro de Oliveira Leite (1927–1985), trumpeter in Venezuela
- António dos Santos (1932-2018), Bishop of Guarda
- Manuel Freire (* 1942), musician, songwriter and singer
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Vagos at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, page 261 ( ISBN 978-972-46-1730-5 )
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 9, 2013
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on January 9, 2013
- ↑ www.museudobrincar.com ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 9, 2013
- ↑ www.vagosopenair.eu
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on January 9, 2013