Fafe Municipality
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Fafe is a municipality and city ( Cidade ) in Portugal with 15,693 inhabitants (as of 30 June 2011).
History
An occupation of the site in the Castro culture and further back to around the 4th millennium BC, as evidenced by finds and excavations, such as tombs and remains of hill forts ( Portuguese: Castro). Other discoveries, such as ceramics, show the Roman past of the place. Fafe was first officially documented in the 12th century. Since the 13th century Fafe was a municipality of the district Montelongo, who won in 1513 by King Manuel I renewed administration rights ( Foral ).
Fafe later became the seat of the district of Santa Eulalia Antiga, and 1836, in the wake of the reforms of Manuel Passos, the eponym of the circle. Fafe 1840 to Vila ( town with administrative rights ), and in 1986 a town.
Management
Circle
Fafe is the seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Póvoa de Varzim, Vieira do Minho, Cabeceiras de Basto, Celorico de Basto, Felgueiras and Guimarães.
The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Fafe:
- Aboim
- Agrela
- Antime
- Ardegão
- Armil
- Arnozela
- Cepães
- Estorãos
- Fafe
- Fareja
- Felgueiras
- Fornelos
- Freitas
- Golães
- Gontim
- Medelo
- Monte
- Moreira do Rei
- Passos
- Pedraído
- Queimadela
- Quinchães
- Regadas
- Revelhe
- Ribeiro
- Santa Cristina de Arões
- São Clemente de Silvares
- São Gens
- São Martinho de Silvares
- São Romão de Arões
- Seidões
- Serafão
- Travassos
- Várzea Cova
- Vila Cova
- Vinhós
Demographics
Education and Culture
- The Institute for Higher Studies Fafe offers bachelor 's and master's degree programs in education, tourism and technology.
- The Cultural Association Confraria because Vitela Assada a Moda de Fafe ( CVAMF ) was founded on July 6, 2013 Honoratoren the city in the presence of guests from Sens and Lörrach.
Twinning
- Brazil Brazil: Porto Seguro
- France France: Sens ( Yonne)
- France France: Soisy -sous- Montmorency
Museums
- Museu do Automóvel Fafe ( Car Museum )
- Museu das Comunidades the Migrações e ( Migration Museum )
- Museu Hidroeléctrico de Santa Rita ( hydroelectric power plant museum)
- Museu da Imprensa de Fafe ( Printing and Press Museum of Fafe )
Sports
- The city is home to the football club founded in 1958 Associação Desportiva de Fafe.
- Fafe was the sixth stage of the Tour of Portugal 2006
- 9th stage of the cycling stage race 2007,
- Hosted the International Youth Games Fafe - Sens- Lörrach 2013
Sons and daughters of the town
- António de Sampaio e Vilas-Boas (1629-1701), genealogist, historian and writer
- António Manuel Lopes Vieira de Castro (1766-1842), priest and ministers, politicians of liberalism
- José Leite de Bressane Perry (1862-1929), politician in the Azores
- Hans Fischer Schuppach (1906-1987), German painter, artist and book illustrator of classic modernism
- Joaquim Gonçalves (* 1936 in Revelhe ), retired bishop of Vila Real