Baião Municipality

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Baião is a small town ( Vila ) in Portugal.

History

Finds evidence of a settlement since the Neolithic period, including megalithic sites, vessels, axes and blades. You can start at the archaeological site Archaeological Campo da Serra da Aboboreira be visited. In the 5th or 4th century BC Celtic settlements of the Castro culture emerged. In the Lisbon Museum of Archaeology Museu Nacional de Archeology is: From this time the gold treasure ( treasure of baião dt ) as extensive jewelry collection Tesouro de baião comes. From the time according to the following Roman conquest tombs, writing tablets, the remains of a temple of Jupiter, a milestone and other parts have remained a Roman road.

711 the Moors captured the area. The Crusader Cathedral Arnaldo distinguished himself in the campaigns of the Reconquista against the Arabs, for which he was the king of Castile gave the local area in the year 985. Not much is known about D.Arnaldo, maybe he was Frankish, but rather of Basque descent, probably from Bayonne. He was the founder of the noble family of Bayãos, whence was derived the present name of locality. Perhaps the local name derives also from an originally Latin word for brown - yellow color scheme, baio, from which prior to the arrival of the Arabs, the place name Baian was, and then later turn caused the naming of the nobility. D.Arnaldos great-great grandson was Egas Moniz educator as the first Portuguese King D.Afonso Henriques.

King D.Manuel I gave the place a town charter in 1513.

Management

Circle baião

Baião is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Porto. June 30, 2011 had the circle 20,525 inhabitants in an area of 174.5 km ².

The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Amarante, Peso da Régua, Mesão Frio, Resende, Cinfães and Marco de Canaveses.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle baião:

• Ancede
• Campelo ( municipality baião )
• Joy
• Gestaçô
• Gove
• Grilo
• Loivos da Ribeira
• Loivos do Monte
• Mesquinhata
• Ovil

• Ribadouro
• Santa Cruz do Douro
• Santa Leocádia
• Santa Marinha do Zêzere
• São Tomé de Covelas
• Teixeira
• Teixeiro
• Tresouras
• Valadares
• Viariz

Demographics

Local holiday

• August 24

Sons and daughters of the town

• Soeiro Pereira Gomes (1909-1949), neo-realistic writer and communist politician