São João da Pesqueira Municipality, Portugal

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São João da Pesqueira is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 2189 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). It belongs to the Upper Douro Valley, the first since 1756 origin protected wine region in the world. This since 2001 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

History

Dolmen and hill forts occupy a prehistoric settlement to the Castro culture. King Alfonso III. ( Asturias ) conquered the city in the 9th century by the Moors and let repopulate it. Between 1055 and 1065 the town received its first city charter of Ferdinand I. (León ). The first town rights in the independent Kingdom of Portugal got São João da Pesqueira 1198 by King Sancho I, which were 1376 confirmed and renewed in 1510.

Culture and sights

Among the monuments of the circle are, inter alia, historic public buildings, mansions and religious buildings, including the historic hospital with its nave church, the Igreja (s Hospital) as Misericordia de São João da Pesqueira, which was originally built in the 16th century and among others Baroque altar of gilded wood ( Talha dourada ) and the Rococo altarpieces harbors. The historical town center as a whole is a listed building.

Some sections of the landscape along the Douro are protected. Several trails lead through the circle, some of them aligned thematically, such as the Wine Route Rota dos Vinhos as Europe (German: Routes of wines in Europe). Also along the archaeological excavations, finds and prehistoric rock paintings in the district lead -marked hiking trails.

Management

Circle

São João da Pesqueira is the administrative seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Alijó Carrazeda de Ansiães, Vila Nova de Foz Côa Penedono, Sernancelhe, Tabuaço and Sabrosa.

The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle São João da Pesqueira:

  • Castanheiro do Sul
  • Ervedosa do Douro
  • Espinhosa
  • Nagozelo do Douro
  • Paredes da Beira
  • Pereiros
  • Riodades
  • São João da Pesqueira
  • Soutelo do Douro
  • Trevões
  • Vale de Figueira
  • Valongo dos Azeites
  • Várzea de Trevões
  • Vilarouco

Demographics

Local holiday

  • June 24

Twinning

Sons and daughters

  • José Maria da Cunha Seixas (1836-1895), philosopher
  • Paradela de Oliveira (1904-1970), Fadosänger
  • Eduardo Tavares (1918-1991), sculptor
  • Álvaro Augusto Veiga de Oliveira (1929-2006), writer and architect, repeated construction minister after the Carnation Revolution
  • José Augusto Seabra (1937-2004), poet, university professor, diplomat and politician, Minister of Education 1983-85
  • Acácio de Almeida ( born 1938 ), a cameraman in particular the Novo Cinemas
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