Paços de Ferreira

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Paços de Ferreira is a municipality and city in Portugal. It is the seat of a circle ( concelho ) with 56 327 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011) on an area of 71 km ².

Paços de Ferreira is also called Capital do Móvel (Portuguese for capital of furniture), as many furniture manufacturing plants are also located here.

History

Finds indicate a prehistoric settlement. In the community Sanfins de Ferreira, the Citânia de Sanfins can be visited, the remains of a settlement from the Castro culture, which was remodeled by the Romans and even populated.

The present town was probably made in the course of settlement policy in the context of the Reconquista. The first mention of a local village date from the 11th century. In 1258, the place was already reported as Vila de Ferreira in the royal registers. King D.Manuel I gave him 1514 first town rights.

The independent circuit Paços de Ferreira was created in 1836, in the course of various administrative reforms of the Liberal Revolution 1822. Previously Paços de Ferreira belonged to the circle Penafiel.

In 1993, the former town ( Vila ) to the city ( Cidade ) was charged.

Sports

The football club FC Paços de Ferreira plays in the Portuguese Liga, the Primeira Liga. It plays its home games at the Estádio da Mata from Real. Trailers and assets of the Association are occasionally Os Castores (Portuguese for: The Beaver ) called, which is related to woodworking, with which the city is traditionally associated.

The first football team of the SC Freamunde, from the community Freamunde, playing in the second highest league, the Segunda Liga. Other clubs in the county are the Clube Desportivo Águias Eiriz in the community Eiriz, Clube Desportivo the Leões Seroa in the community Seroa, and the club Grupo Desportivo Cultural Leões Citânia from Sanfins de Ferreira. Their football departments all play in lower leagues at the district association level.

Management

Circle

Paços de Ferreira is the seat of a district of the same ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Santo Tirso, Lousada, Paredes and Valongo.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Paços de Ferreira:

  • Arreigada
  • Carvalhosa
  • Codessos
  • Eiriz
  • Ferreira
  • Figueiró
  • Frazão
  • Freamunde
  • Lamoso
  • Meixomil
  • Modelos
  • Paços de Ferreira
  • Penamaior
  • Raymonda
  • Sanfins de Ferreira
  • Seroa

Demographics

Local holiday

  • November 6,

Twinning

Traffic

The city is connected by the A42 with Autoestrada Ermida and Lousada.

The public transport (PT ) is ensured by 15 local and regional bus lines of the local car Viação Pacense public transport company. This is part of the car since 1996 Viação Landim, a private company from Vila Nova de Famalicão, which operates the public transport of various districts of the region in public concession.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • José Pinto Martins ( † 1827), agricultural entrepreneur, co-founder of the Brazilian city of Pelotas
  • Explains Sílvia Cardoso (1882-1950), social worker on March 27, 2013 by the Pope to the Venerable Servant of God
  • José Carlos Vasconcelos ( b. 1940 ), lawyer, journalist and politician
  • António Maria Bessa Taipa ( b. 1942 ), Bishop in Porto
  • António Assunção (1945-1998), actor
  • Carlos Paulo Martins Carneiro ( born 1974 ), football player
  • Pedro das Neves Correia ( born 1974 ), former football goalkeeper
  • Marisa Barros ( born 1980 in Sanfins de Ferreira), marathon runner
  • Ricardo Manuel Ferreira Sousa, also under the name Cadú ( b. 1981 ), football player
  • Manuel António Cardoso ( b. 1983 ), cyclist
  • Júlio Manuel Pires Coelho ( born 1984 ), football player
  • Daniel Pedro Pires Barbosa (* 1985 in Freamunde ), football player
  • André Leão (* 1985 in Freamunde ), football player
  • Vitorino Antunes ( * 1987 in Freamunde ), football player
  • Luís Pedro Gomes Martins ( * 1989 in Freamunde ), football player
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