Sátão Municipality
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Sátão is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 12,423 inhabitants in an area of 201.9 km ². (as at 30 June 2011)
History and place name
The name has no connection to the concept of Satan. It probably dates from the period of Arab rule (" clog " or about " fill up " ) from the verb Santama or the ruler name Zaatam. Sátão was already the seat of its own district when he first issued in 1111 city rights under the name Zalatane the Count Henry of Burgundy and Countess Theresa of Castile. In the royal records of the city was still indicated as çaatam 1258, and 1527 as çaataom. During the Renaissance, the shape Satam, from which today's notation was developed.
The medieval municipality in the district was under the name of Santa Maria do Sátão ( today's spelling), and included the territories of present-day communities Avelal, Mioma and Sátão. End of the 16th century it was split into the community of Vila da Igreja, with the municipalities Avelal and Sátão, and the parish of São Pedro de Mioma, separated by the river Vímaro. Only since 1951 to be managed uniformly under the official name Sátão province, municipality and small town ( Vila ).
Management
Circle
Sátão is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Moimenta da Beira, Sernancelhe, Aguiar da Beira, Penalva do Castelo, Viseu and Vila Nova de Paiva.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Sátão:
- Águas Boas
- Avelal
- Decermilo
- Ferreira de Aves
- Forles
- Mioma
- Rio de Moinhos
- Romãs
- São Miguel de Vila Boa
- Sátão
- Silva de Cima
- Vila Longa
Demographics
Local holiday
- August 20
Twinning
Traffic
The national road N229 connects Sátão with 20 km south-west to the district capital of Viseu and the local connections to the A24 and A25 motorways.
Sátão is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.
Sports
The football club Associação Desportiva de Sátão was founded in 1969 and plays in leagues of Ditriktverbandes below the national third division, the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Eduardo de Sousa Monteiro (1864-1965), judge, Republican Minister of Justice 1914
- Maria Aurora (1937-2010), journalist, poet and author, significant personality of the cultural scene of Madeira
- Adelino Teixeira (born 1954 ), cyclist, winner of the Tour of Portugal 1977