Vila Nova de Cerveira
| Vila Nova de Cerveira district | |||||
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| Residents: | 9253 (as of June 30, 2011) | ||||
| Surface: | 108.47 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | ||||
| Population density : | 85 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Number of municipalities : | 11 | ||||
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| Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Cerveira Largo do Município 4920-284 Vila Nova de Cerveira |
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| President of the Câmara Municipal: | José Manuel Carpinteira ( PS ) | ||||
| Website: | www.cm-vncerveira.pt | ||||
Vila Nova de Cerveira is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Município or Concelho ) in Portugal with 9253 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
history
Finds and excavations prove a prehistoric settlement up to the arrival of the Romans from the 2nd century BC. They won gold in mines in what is now Covas parish. The present-day place, however, did not emerge until the beginning of the 13th century AD, and took over the name of the area known as Cerveira. King D Dinis gave the place its first town charter ( Foral ) in 1321 , which was renewed in 1512 by King Manuel I as part of his administrative reforms.
The site became the site of the Battle of Vilanova on September 17, 1658.
Culture and sights
The art exhibition Bienal de Cerveira , which has been taking place every two years since 1978 , is well-known. In addition to the exhibitions, this includes workshops, discussions and lectures, creative work stays by artists, performances and concerts. The Fórum Cultural de Cerveira building complex is also a place for exhibitions and other art events outside of the Biennale. In general, art is a focal point for the place, which is also called Vila das Artes ( Portuguese for: (small) town of art). For example, the city maintains an artist house for creative guest stays in the Casa do Artista "Pintor Jaime Isidoro" , which is dedicated to art in all forms, from painting and sculpture to theater, dance, electronic art and photography to music and other art forms. The CineTeatro , which has been converted into a cultural and event center , the city archive ( Arquivo Municipal ), the library ( Biblioteca ), and the Casa do Turismo , housed in a two-storey historic house from the 19th century , with the tourist office , plastic art exhibitions and the coordination office for cultural and other associations in the district, are other places of art to be mentioned in Vila Nova de Cerveira.
The architectural monuments in the district include mansions , historical public buildings, stone fountains, the castle, and a variety of sacred buildings , including the three-aisled Igreja Matriz de Vila Nova de Cerveira (also Igreja de São Cipriano ). The baroque church originally built in the 16th century contains u. a. a golden baroque altar. The historic center of Vila Nova de Cerveira, criss-crossed by narrow streets, is also a listed building as a whole.
The Iron Age archaeological site in the municipality of Lovelhe, the castle, the Aquamuseu do Rio Minho , which opened in 2005 and is dedicated to the river, its history and its flora and fauna, and the handicraft center Casa do Artesão , housed in the former market hall, are further points of interest for visitors.
administration
The circle
The administrative seat of the district is located in the village of the same name, Vila Nova de Cerveira . In the north the district borders on Spain . The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Valença , Paredes de Coura , Ponte de Lima and Caminha .
With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 15 to eleven.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Vila Nova de Cerveira district:
| local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campos e Vila Meã | 1,713 | 8.76 | 196 | 161016 |
| Candemil e Gondar | 359 | 10.82 | 33 | 161017 |
| Cornes | 478 | 6.16 | 78 | 161003 |
| Covas | 675 | 28.60 | 24 | 161004 |
| Gondarém | 1.010 | 6.86 | 147 | 161006 |
| Loivo | 885 | 5.15 | 172 | 161007 |
| Mentrestido | 264 | 4.70 | 56 | 161009 |
| Reboreda e Nogueira | 1,071 | 8.98 | 119 | 161018 |
| Sapardos | 366 | 6.72 | 54 | 161012 |
| Sopo | 557 | 14.82 | 38 | 161013 |
| Vila Nova de Cerveira e Lovelhe | 1,875 | 6.90 | 272 | 161019 |
| Vila Nova de Cerveira district | 9,253 | 108.47 | 85 | 1610 |
Population development
| Population in the district of Vila Nova de Cerveira (1801–2011) | ||||||||||||
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| 1801 | 1849 | 1900 | 1930 | 1960 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | ||||
| 6706 | 9401 | 9691 | 10,794 | 11,030 | 8666 | 9144 | 8852 | 9253 | ||||
Municipal holiday
- October 1
Town twinning
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France : Chagny-en-Bourgogne (since 1999)
Web links
- Map of the Concelho Vila Nova de Cerveira at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the district
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on March 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on March 6, 2013.
- ↑ Website of the Bienal de Cerveira ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English and Portuguese), accessed March 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.cm-vncerveira.pt ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed March 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.cm-vncerveira.pt ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2013.
- ↑ ditto ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on March 6, 2013.
- ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 291.
- ↑ ditto
- ↑ ditto
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed March 6, 2013.
- ↑ www.cm-vncerveira.pt ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 6, 2013.
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed March 5, 2013.
