Vizela
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Ave | |||||
| District : | Braga | |||||
| Concelho : | Vizela | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 23 ′ N , 8 ° 19 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 23,736 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 24.69 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 961 inhabitants per km² | |||||
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| Residents: | 23,736 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 24.69 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 961 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Number of municipalities : | 5 | |||||
| administration | ||||||
| Administration address: | Câmara Municipal de Vizela Rua Dr. Alfredo Pinto, 42 4815 - 397 Vizela |
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| President of the Câmara Municipal: | Dinis Manuel da Silva Costa ( PS ) | |||||
| Website: | www.cm-vizela.pt | |||||
Vizela is a city in Portugal . Vizela is known for its medicinal bath with thermal springs of up to 65 °.
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history
The Romans used since the 3rd century BC The thermal springs bubbling here . A bridge has been preserved from that time. After the Suebi conquest in the early 5th century AD, the area became part of the Visigoth Empire . When the dioceses and parishes were established in 607, one of the newly established parishes was Ocullis, later named Caldas da Vizela (Vizela thermal baths).
In 1361 Vizela became the seat of an independent district as Riba Vizela . In 1372 an alliance treaty was signed between England and Portugal in the municipality of Tagilde. The circle of Caldas da Vizela was dissolved again in 1408.
The thermal springs were largely forgotten in the following centuries before they were rediscovered in the 18th century. In 1785, facilities for the use of the thermal baths were created again for the first time in Lameira with simple hut buildings. After some improved, but still very simple facilities, a royal decree allowed the district to build and operate regular thermal baths on site in the 19th century. The facilities built since 1870 and the Companhia dos Banhos de Vizela spa company founded in 1873 have since triggered significant economic and urban development.
In 1929 Vizela was elevated to a small town ( Vila ). The increased population pushed for the re-establishment of an independent district of Vizela, but the citizens' initiative MRCV ( Movimento para a Restauração do Concelho de Vizela , English: Movement to restore the district of Vizela), founded in 1964, was able to manage the authorities of the Estado Novo regime not convince. With the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, the promise of an administrative reform came, but corresponding proposals regarding Vizela in the Portuguese Parliament failed . After further unsuccessful advances in 1982, the parliament decided on March 19, 1998 the elevation of Vizela to the city ( Cidade ) and the creation of the district of Vizela, which was celebrated by 6,000 residents of Vizela in front of the parliament building. The citizens' initiative MRCV also organized a big festival in Vizela with fireworks on the occasion of the fulfillment of its founding goal.
Sports
The place is home to the football club Futebol Clube Vizela, founded in 1939 . It plays its home games in the Estádio Futebol Clube Vizela stadium, which can hold 6,565 spectators . FC Vizela last played (2013/2014) in Série B of the third division, the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores .
administration
The circle
Vizela is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Braga district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 23,736 inhabitants on an area of 24.7 km².
The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Guimarães , Felgueiras , Lousada and Santo Tirso .
With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were combined into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from seven to five.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Vizela district:
| local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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| Caldas de Vizela | 10,633 | 7.68 | 1,384 | 031408 |
| Infias | 1,840 | 3.11 | 591 | 031404 |
| Santa Eulália | 5,619 | 5.64 | 996 | 031401 |
| Santo Adrião de Vizela | 2,280 | 3.01 | 757 | 031406 |
| Tagilde e Vizela | 3,364 | 5.25 | 641 | 031409 |
| Vizela district | 23,736 | 24.69 | 961 | 0314 |
Population development
| Population in the district of Vizela (2001-2011) | ||
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| 2001 | 2004 | 2011 |
| 22,595 | 23,528 | 23,708 |
Vizela County was not created until March 19, 1998.
Municipal holiday
- 19th March
Town twinning
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Frontignan , France (since 2007) -
Caldas de Reis , Galicia , Spain (since 2013)
traffic
The city is a stop on the Linha de Guimarães railway line with its terminus in the Boavista district in Porto and Fafe .
Vizela is connected to the country's motorway network by the A11 motorway.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gonçalo de Amarante (1187–1262), beatified clergyman, worked particularly in Amarante
- Manuel Duarte Moreira de Sá e Melo (1892–1975), engineer, urban development manager at the Ministry of Construction in the Estado Novo regime
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ History of the Circle ( Memento of the original from March 3, 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. from the city council's website, accessed February 24, 2014
- ↑ Portrait of the club at www.fussballzz.de, accessed on March 3, 2014
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ↑ Page on the town twinning with Frontignan ( memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Vizela Municipality website, accessed March 3, 2014
- ↑ Page on the town twinning with Caldas de Reis ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Vizela Municipality website, accessed March 3, 2014
