Santarém, Portugal
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Santarém is a city in Portugal. It is the capital of the district of Santarém.
History
Finds evidence of a settlement since the late Bronze Age. Phoenicians, Greeks and other peoples came to action over the Tagus up to this point. In 138 BC the city was first documented under the name Scalabis as a Roman village. The then further fortified, later Scalabis Castro said city, located in the middle Tagus area was an important administrative and commercial city of the Roman province of Lusitania.
After the invasion of the Alans and the Vandals the place in the 5th century AD Santa Irene was called. Since the conquest of 460 by Sunerico the city belonged to the Visigothic kingdom until the Moors they took 715. Over the next Reconquista also Santarém was contested. So Henry conquered from Burgundy, the Count of Portucale, the city in the late 11th century. In 1110 it was retaken by the Arabs. Under Portugal's first king D.Afonso Henriques Santarém was finally Portuguese on March 15, 1147 finally. The changing history of the city can be seen in the heritage village. The historic inner city is nearly 2,000 square kilometers expansion as the largest contiguous historic center of the country.
Santarém supported in 1580 the Portuguese pretender António of Crato. After his unsuccessful efforts and the following personal union of Portugal with Spain, the city is on the trail some neglect, and it arrived on various uprisings, as in 1629, 1636 and 1637th After the damage caused by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Napoleonic invasions in the early 19th century then the city experienced some urban upgrades. 1868, the former town ( Vila ) to the city ( Cidade ) was charged. 2000 Ponte Salgueiro Maia was built over the Tagus.
In the old town
At the shopping mall W
Located in the historic center
The city market hall Mercado Municipal
Management
Since 2002, Santarém is performed in the statistical region of Alentejo and the statistical subregion Lezíria do Tejo, but still belongs to the developing region ( Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional) Lisbon, which inspired by the historical province, the name of Lisboa e Vale do Tejo leads, .
Santarém is the capital of the district of Santarém.
Santarém district
Santarém is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ). June 30, 2011 had the circle 62 162 inhabitants in an area of 560.2 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Porto de Mos, Alcanena, Torres Novas, Golegã, Chamusca Alpiarça, Almeirim, Cartaxo, Azambuja, Rio Maior and Alcobaça.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Santarém:
- Abitureiras
- Abrã
- Achete
- Alcanede
- Alcanhões
- Almoster
- Amiais de Baixo
- Arneiro the Milhariças
- Azoia de Baixo
- Azoia de Cima
- Casével
- Gançaria
- Marvila
- Moçarria
- Pernes
- Póvoa da Isenta
- Póvoa de Santarém
- Romeira
- Santa Iria da Ribeira de Santarém
- São Nicolau
- São Salvador
- São Vicente do Paul
- Tremês
- Vale de Figueira
- Vale de Santarém
- Vaqueiros
- Várzea
Local holiday
Twinning
City friendship
- Bulgaria Haskovo, Bulgaria ( since 1982)
- Moldova Tiraspol, Moldova ( since 1983)
- Spain Badajoz, Spain ( since 1986)
- Angola Lubango, Angola (since 1988)
- Morocco, Meknes, Morocco ( since 1989)
- Guinea- Bissau Fulacunda, Guinea- Bissau ( 1989 )
- Portugal Covilhã, Portugal ( since 1991)
- Brazil Santarém, Brazil ( since 1994)
- Cape Verde Brava, Cape Verde (since 1995)
- Brazil São Vicente, Brazil ( since 2000)
- Romania Targoviste, Romania ( since 2001)
- Grândola Portugal, Portugal ( since 2006)
Cooperation Agreement
- Sweden Lund, Sweden
- United Kingdom Somerset, UK
- Brazil Natal, Brazil
- Bulgaria Pazardzhik, Bulgaria
- Brazil Santos, Brazil
- Spain Zamora, Spain
In initiating
Economy
The industry is particularly ceramics, food industry and wood processing represented in the district of Santarém in the fields, but also with companies in the metal processing, chemical and mechanical engineering, especially in the Triangle Torres Novas -Abrantes - Santarém.
Santarém is the center of the historical province of Ribatejo, for livestock, vegetables, cereals and fruit for the country is of great importance today. Mention should also be fishing, viticulture, olive oil production and trade.
The 50th National Agricultural Exhibition held, which was also the 60th Ribatejo Fair at the same time, a trade fair for: in June 2013 took place at the exhibition center in the CNEMA (National Center for Agricultural fairs and markets Centro Nacional de Exposições e Mercados Agrícolas, dt ) among other things, technological, environmental and energy solutions and innovations in agriculture, exhibition of machinery manufacturers, among others agricultural enterprises. In addition, there is the tasting pavilion Salão Prazer de provar (German Hall " Vergüngen of trial ") and the nature and tourism trade fair Expo.Tur - Feira do Turismo Rural e Natureza (German Mass of rural tourism and nature). Also, a public exhibition will be held with the product shows, tastings, cooking events, etc., which is accompanied by equestrian events, concerts and other public events. The show was one of 2013 three-year average annually about 165,000 visitors.
Traffic
The train station just outside of Santarem is located on the main railway line in the country, the Linha do Norte. In addition, the site is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.
The city is connected to the north on the A15 motorway at the next motorway junction with the A1, the main highway of the country. To the south is the IC10 highway, according to the Tejoüberquerung over the Ponte Salgueiro Maia, in the A13, an important link in the south of the country.
The Santarém airport is used by sports and private aircraft.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Ibn Bassam († 1147 ), Islamic historian
- Ferdinand I. ( Portugal) ( 1345-1383 ), King of Portugal
- John of Portugal (1400-1442), Duke of Aveiro
- Ferdinand of Avis (1402-1443), Prince of Portugal
- Estácio de Sá (1520-1567), military, founder of the city of Rio de Janeiro
- Fernão Teles de Meneses (1530-1605), Military, from 1581 Governor of Portuguese India
- Manuel da Silva Coutinho (1541-1583), noble, principal supporter of the pretender to the throne António of Crato
- Aires de Saldanha (1542-1605), Military, from 1600 Viceroy of Portuguese India
- Luis de Sousa ( ~ 1555-1632 ), Portuguese historian and writer
- António dos Reis (1690-1738), historian and spiritual writer
- Luís Cardoso (1694-1769), spiritual chronicler and historian, brother of António dos Reis
- Domingos da Encarnação Pontevel (1722-1793), Bishop of Mariana (Brazil )
- Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo (1795-1876), Portuguese politician and leader of the Setembristen
- António de Oliveira Marreca (1805-1889), economist, writer, Freemasons and liberal politician, Governor of the Azores
- Joaquim Tomás Lobo de Ávila (1822-1901), politician, Economic and Foreign Minister until the proclamation of the Republic in 1910
- Alfredo Augusto das Neves Holtreman (1837-1920), lawyer and entrepreneur
- Guilherme de Azevedo (1839-1882), journalist and poet
- António Pedro da Costa (1840-1900), Bishop of Daman
- Domingos Maria Frutuoso (1867-1949), Bishop of Portalegre
- Luiza Andaluz (1877-1973), Catholic foundress
- Ernestino Augusto Costa, known as Costinha (1891-1976), actor
- António Amorim de Vasconcelos Porto (1893-1956), railway engineer
- Rebelo Gonçalves (1907-1982), linguist, philologist and lexicographer, university teachers and researchers
- Henrique Campos (1909-1983), Director
- Armando Ginestal Machado (1913-1991), railway engineer
- Joaquim Luís Gomes (1914-2009), composer and conductor
- Bernardo Santareno (1924-1980), psychiatrist, translator and poet, the most important Portuguese dramatist of the 20th century
- Leonardo Ribeiro de Almeida (1924-2006), lawyer and politician, Minister of Defence 1985-87
- Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão ( born 1925 ), historian, author and university professor, in 1973/74 Rector of the University of Lisbon
- Pedro Oom (1926-1974), surrealist poet and writer
- Joaquim Magalhães Mota (1935-2007), lawyer and politician, several times Minister
- Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941-2010), Angolan writer, director and anthropologist
- Mário Viegas (1948-1996), actor, comedian and reciter, prominent AIDS victims
- Ulisses Morais ( born 1959 ), football coach
- João Bruto da Costa (born 1969 ), lawyer and politician
- Manuel de Freitas (born 1972 ), poet, journalist and literary critic
- Rui Silva ( born 1977 ), Olympic Athlete
- Ana Moura ( born 1979 ), the fado singer
- Inês Henriques ( born 1980 ), Olympic track and field athlete
- Vera Santos ( born 1981 ), Olympic track and field athlete
- Joana Amendoeira (* 1982 ), fado singer
- João Duarte Vieira Pereira (* 1990), football player
- João Arrais (* 1995), actor
Pedro Álvares Cabral, who died here, "discoverer" of Brazil, da Graça buried in the former monastery church Igreja.
Sá da Bandeira
António de Oliveira Marreca
Alfredo Augusto das Neves Holtreman
Guilherme de Azevedo ( painted by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro )
Rui Silva at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin
Ana Moura (2008)