Vilar (Terras de Bouro)
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| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Cávado | |||||
| District : | Braga | |||||
| Concelho : | Terras de Bouro | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Chamoim e Vilar | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 44 ′ N , 8 ° 17 ′ W | |||||
Chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento in Vilar, destination of a regionally popular annual pilgrimage
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Vilar is a place and a former municipality in northern Portugal . The place, sometimes also called Vilar de Chamoim , is located on the left bank of the Rio Homem .
The local monumental pilgrimage site Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Livramento is regionally known
history
Presumably there was already a settlement here in Roman times.
The parish church was built in 1779.
administration
Vilar was the seat of a parish of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Terras de Bouro in the Braga district . The community had an area of 4.58 km² and 148 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
The municipality was made up of nine localities:
- Barral
- Costa
- Cruzes
- Mota
- Outeiro
- Paço
- Paredes
- Travassos
- Vilar
With the municipal reform on September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Vilar and Chamoim were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Chamoim e Vilar .
Population development
| Population in the municipality of Vilar (1864–2011) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1864 | 1878 | 1890 | 1900 | 1911 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| 335 | 322 | 283 | 260 | 296 | 301 | 335 | 368 | 423 | 376 | 300 | 257 | 238 | 200 | 149 |
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Vilar at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Entry to Vilar in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information about Vilar on the page about the new municipality Chamoim e Vilar at the district administration of Terras de Bouro, accessed on April 18, 2018
- ^ Entry of the Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Livramento in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on April 18, 2018
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014