Vila do Bispo

Vila do Bispo
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Basic data
Region :	Algarve
Sub-region :	Algarve
District :	Faro
Concelho :	Vila do Bispo
Coordinates :	37 ° 5 ′  N , 8 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 5 ′  N , 8 ° 55 ′  W
Residents:	936 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	58.49 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	8650
politics
Mayor :	or
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Vila do Bispo Rua Santa Maria do Cabo, Nº 38 8650-416 Vila do Bispo
Vila do Bispo district
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Residents:	5258 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	179.06 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo Paços do Concelho 8650-407 Vila do Bispo
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Adelino Soares ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-viladobispo.pt

Vila do Bispo is a small town ( Vila ) in the Algarve in southwest Portugal . It is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) with 5258 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). Vila do Bispo (German: small town of the bishop) is located in the Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina , a nature reserve that stretches along the entire south-west Portuguese coast. In addition to the sandy beaches, the municipality of Sagres has become particularly well known.

The main church of the place

history

At the nearby Vale Boi site , which was discovered in 1998, traces were found that possibly go back to the Neanderthals , in any case to the Upper Palaeolithic . The excavations carried out from 2000 onwards showed that the oldest finds so far can most likely be assigned to the Moustérien , while more recent finds from the Solutréen and the Gravettien are dated . The oldest Gravettia find was dated to 24,300 ± 205 BP.

The first traces of rural settlement in the district go back to the Neolithic Age . Not far from the village there are a number of menhir groups, such as on Monte dos Amantes (Mountain of Lovers) or on the road between Raposeira and Praia da Ingrina.

Romans lived here later. With the conquest by Berbers and Arabs from 711, descending Moors introduced Mediterranean techniques to agriculture and fishing.

The first Portuguese documents about what was then the village of Santa Maria do Cabo date from the 14th century, including a decree from King Alfonso IV from 1353. The place was given to the Bishop of Faro by King Manuel I at the beginning of the 16th century given, and was given the name Aldeia do Bispo ( Portuguese for: village of the bishop). In 1662 King Pedro II made the place the seat of a separate district and elevated it to a small town ( Vila ). Since then the place has had its current name.

administration

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Vila do Bispo is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are Aljezur and Lagos .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , the municipalities ( freguesias ) Vila do Bispo and Raposeira were merged to form the new municipality Vila do Bispo e Raposeira . Since then, the district has consisted of the following four municipalities:

Vila do Bispo district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Barão de Sao Miguel	451	14.87	30th	081501
Budens	1,520	45.60	33	081502
Sagres	1,909	34.37	56	081504
Vila do Bispo e Raposeira	1,378	84.22	16	081506
Vila do Bispo district	5,258	179.06	29	0815

Population development

Population in the Vila do Bispo County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
684	3278	4912	6082	5988	5700	5762	5349	5258

Attractions

• Fortaleza de Belixe
• East of the district town is the oldest sacred building in the Algarve, the Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe chapel , which was built by knights of the Order of Christ in the 13th century.
• There are also several burial mounds from the Neolithic in the area.

Municipal holiday

• 22nd of January

Town twinning

•  Japan : Nishinoomote (since 1992)
•  United States : Cape Canaveral (Florida) (since 2004)
•  Spain : Santa Fe (Granada) (since 2005)
•  Spain : Baiona , Galicia (since 2009)

Web links

Commons : Vila do Bispo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia Vila do Bispo at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Vila do Bispo City Council website

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. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ Nuno Ferreira Bicho, Juan Francisco Gibaja, Mary Stiner, Tiina Manne: Le paléolithique supérieur au sud du Portugal: le site de Vale Boi , in: L'anthropologie 114.1 (2010) 48-67 ( online , PDF).
5. ↑ Vila do Bispo - on the trail of the menhirs , private website Marlene Bunge-Kersten, Hans-Joachim Bunge.
6. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed September 12, 2013
7. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
8. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on September 12, 2013
9. ^ Page of the town twinning on the municipality website , accessed on September 12, 2013