Vagos

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Vagos
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Vagos Coat of Arms
Vagos (Portugal)
Vagos
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Aveiro Region
District : Aveiro
Concelho : Vagos
Coordinates : 40 ° 33 ′  N , 8 ° 41 ′  W 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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Flag of Vagos Position of the Vagos Circle
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
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).

The pilgrimage chapel of the Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Vagos
In the district of Vagos, not far from the Ria de Aveiro

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

circle

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:

Circle Vagos
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
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)
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

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Vagos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, page 261 ( ISBN 978-972-46-1730-5 )
  5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 9, 2013
  6. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on January 9, 2013
  7. ↑ www.museudobrincar.com ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 9, 2013
  8. ↑ www.vagosopenair.eu
  9. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  10. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on January 9, 2013