Valado dos Frades

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Valado dos Frades
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Valado dos Frades Location map for Valado dos Frades
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Oeste
District : Leiria
Concelho : Nazaré
Coordinates : 39 ° 35 ′  N , 9 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 35 ′  N , 9 ° 1 ′  W
Residents: 3109 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 18.51 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 168 inhabitants per km²
Height: 32  m
politics
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Valado dos Frades
Rua Heróis Ultramar 36
2450-372 Valado dos Frades
Valado train station

Valado dos Frades is a Portuguese municipality ( freguesia ) in the Nazaré district in the Leiria district , in the historic province of Estremadura . It has city rights (Vila). Valado dos Frades has 3109 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011) and is 18.5 km² in size.

history

Valado dos Frades is located six kilometers from Nazaré and Alcobaça and goes back to a settlement that began in the 12th century by the monks of the Abbey of Alcobaça . At that time, the Pederneira lagoon stretched to just before the gates of Alcobaça, but its peripheral zones were already in a state of siltation, including in the area of ​​today's town of Valado dos Frades, where the monks had founded a farm on the northern bank of the lagoon , the Quinta do Valado, and the drainage of the marshes. This is where the name comes from, whereby Valado refers to both the Portuguese root of the word vala for ditch and the Latin of vallum / vallus for stake, wall, so that Valado dos Frades stands for the monks' moats .

Quinta do Campo

The Quinta de Valado became the Quinta do Campo, in which the Abbey of Alcobaça ran a school for agriculture and hydraulic engineering as early as the 14th century. From here the monks worked beyond their actual domain, the Coutos de Alcobaça , to drain the swamps throughout the country. The Quinta do Campo is the only farm ( granja ) of the former abbey that has been preserved in its original structure . It is now used for tourist purposes.

present

Today Valado dos Frades is a small town with a flourishing ceramics and porcelain industry, but also with an important agriculture that uses the fertile soil obtained by the monks, still criss-crossed by many ditches, with fruit and vegetable cultivation. Since 1887 it has had the only rail connection in the region. Up until the beginning of the 20th century, many pilgrims came to Nazaré via him to the shrine of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré , the most important Marian pilgrimage site in Portugal since the Middle Ages.

Web links

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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ^ Page of the Câmara Municipal da Nazaré on Valado dos Frades ( Memento from September 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Quinta do Campo, Antiga Granja do Valado. In: Pesquisa Geral - Pesquisa do Patrimonio. Direção Geral do Património Cultural , accessed March 23, 2018 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Maria Zulmira Albuquerque Furtado Marques: Monumentos dos antigos Coutos de Alcobaça. In: Roteiro Cultural da Região de Alcobaça. Alcobaça 2001, ISBN 972-98064-3-8 , pp. 111-135, 115-116