Ãgueda Municipality
Template: Infobox Municipio / Maintenance / Administration Name is empty
Template: Infobox Municipio / maintenance / management address is empty
Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / card is empty
Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Height is empty
Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Mayor is filled
Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty
Agueda is a city ( Cidade ) in Portugal with 11,357 inhabitants (as of 30 June 2011).
History
The present district Agueda has a plurality finds from the Roman period, especially at the archaeological site Estação Arqueológica de Cabeço do Vouga. Probably crossed the Roman road from Aeminium (today Coimbra ) by Cale (now Gaia ) the place. The place name derives from the river running here, who was known as Ágata already in the 9th century. A document from the year 1050 speaks of a series Vilas ( small towns ) in the area of today's circle Agueda, many of whom came from the Arabic name.
The place was known as Casal Lausato before as Agada took the name of the river as Agatha and then in the 11th century. The river was itself originally named after Saint Agatha.
Today's village Agueda was probably in the 11th or 12th century, during the re- settlements during the Reconquista. A report by officials from Aveiro confirmed in 1451, although a growing place that then but still received no own town rights, but in Aveiro city rights charter in 1515 by King D.Manuel I was greeted with. Assequins, now a hamlet of Agueda, on the other hand own city rights were granted by the King.
On December 31, 1853, the independent circuit Agueda was created. There was an industrial development, which was reinforced by the arrival of the railway in 1908. On August 14, 1985, since 1834 as a small town ( Vila ) guided place to the city ( Cidade ) was charged.
Culture and sights
Agueda has an interesting arts and crafts heritage in pottery, basketry, weaving, cooperage and the clappers. Worth visiting are the villages Urgueira, Macieira de Alcoba or Lourizela which have been preserved an authentic rustic feel. There are several folk groups in the district.
Among the many churches, chapels and cross-roads of the circle Agueda the Panteão dos Lemos earned in the community Trofa do Vouga special attention.
Other interesting for the visitor places are the Pateira de Fermentelos (the largest natural lake in the Iberian peninsula ) and the Roman excavations of Cabeço do Vouga.
In Macinhata do Vouga is a branch opened in 1981 by the Portuguese Railway Museum Museu Nacional Ferroviário. Other museums include the Casa Museu do Cancioneiro de Agueda, one in a stately house housed in the 18th century museum of his native culture, which opened in 1969, Museum of Fine Arts Museu da Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro, in 1977, inaugurated Museu Etnográfico da Região do Vouga regional ethnography, and the local museum Casa Museu João Tomás Nunes in Fermentelos.
Gastronomy
The most famous specialty is the suckling pig Bairrada -Art ( Leitão à Bairrada assado ). Also known are the wines and sparkling wines in the Bairrada. In addition, there are some traditional desserts from Agueda: pastéis de Agueda, Barriga de freira, Fuzis e Sequilhos, Regueifa, and the Padas da Veiga.
Sports
The football club Recreio Desportivo de Agueda founded in 1924, played a few seasons in the Second Portuguese League 1982/83 a season in the First Portuguese league. After following financial problems and downs he plays today at the district level. Play their home games, the club from the 10,000 -seater urban Estádio Municipal de Agueda.
Other clubs in the county are the Associação Desportiva Valonguense ( from Valongo do Vouga ), which was founded in 1930 Sporting Clube de Fermentelos, and founded in 1949, União Desportiva Mourisquense from the place Mourisca do Vouga, in the municipality Trofa.
Agueda was a venue of the U -21 Football Championship in 2006.
Management
The circle
Agueda 's seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Aveiro. June 30, 2011 had the circle 47 817 inhabitants in an area of 335.3 km ².
The neighboring districts of Agueda are (clockwise starting from the north ): Sever do Vouga, Oliveira de Frades, Vouzela, Tondela, Mortágua, Anadia, Oliveira do Bairro, Aveiro and Albergaria- a-Velha.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Agueda:
- Agadão
- Aguada de Baixo
- Aguada de Cima
- Agueda
- Barrô
- Belazaima do Chão
- Borralha
- Castanheira do Vouga
- Espinhel
- Fermentelos
- Lamas do Vouga
- Macieira de Alcoba
- Macinhata do Vouga
- OIS da Ribeira
- Préstimo
- Recardães
- Segadães
- Travassô
- Trofa
- Valongo do Vouga
Among them are a city ( Cidade ), Agueda, and three small towns ( Vilas ): Aguada de Cima, Fermentelos, and Mourisca do Vouga in the community Trofa.
Demographics
Local holiday
- Eighth Monday after Easter Sunday
Twinning
- Brazil: Rio Grande, Brazil (since 16 November 1993)
- Guinea- Bissau: Bissau, Guinea- Bissau ( since 10 March 1995)
- Spain: Ferrol, Spain ( since 26 August 1999),
- Belgium: Sint- Gillis- Waas, Belgium (since 25 August 2000)
Economy
The region around Agueda is very fertile; are grown and gained wood corn, fruit and wine. Some of the municipalities of the Agueda lie in the wine region of Bairrada, which is nationally known for its suckling pig in addition to their internationally marketed wines.
Apart from agriculture, trade and industry have meaning. Especially the metal processing industry is located in Agueda, there are, among others Engines, motorcycles and bicycles produced.
Traffic
The railway line Linha do Vouga happened at several stops the circle Agueda.
The connection point No. 15 ( Aveiro Sul ) of the A1 motorway in the Parish Fermentelos. The national road N1 highway bypasses as IC2 the county seat Agueda. You will connect the town to about 15 km north extending highway A25, and leads 40 km south to Coimbra.
Agueda is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Fernando Caldeira (1841-1894), writer
- Francisco Ferraz de Macedo (1845-1907), pharmacist, physician and anthropologist
- Manuel Homem de Melo da Câmara (1866-1953), politician and journalist, Earl of Agueda
- Adolfo Rodrigues da Costa Portela (1866-1923), writer, poet and playwright
- João Domingues Arede (1869-1953), as Joao Arede known clergyman and historian
- Arménio Gomes dos Santos (1900-1971), educator, journalist and writer
- Hernâni Ferreira da Silva (1931-2001), football player
- Fernando Braz da Costa ( born 1932 ), local poet
- Manuel Alegre ( b. 1936 ), poet and politician, presidential candidate of the PS 2006 and 2011
- António de Vasconcelos Nogueira ( b. 1961 ), philosopher, social scientist, writer and university teacher
- Carlos Ala ( * 1962), rally driver, multiple participants in the Dakar Rally
- Eduardo Veiga (born 1962 ), rally driver
- Afonso de Melo (born 1964 ), journalist and author
- Nucha (born 1966 ), singer
Fernando Braz da Costa
Manuel Alegre ( Portrait of Carlos Botelho )
António de Vasconcelos Nogueira
Eduardo Veiga at winning the Ralicross Portugal 2005