Alcácer do Sal

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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Alcácer do Sal is a city ( Cidade ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 12,980 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011 ).

History

The colonization of the area of ​​Alcácer do Sal can be traced to the need in the area archaeological sites dating from the Stone Age between epochs, ( necropolis Olival do Senhor dos Martires ), Phoenician ( Abul ), Roman Empire and Islamic colonization. The first settlers came from Galicia. Witnesses of this period are the located in the area of worship and megaliths.

Abul is the only Phoenician trading post, which has been discovered on the Portuguese coast. It lies in the funnel of the Rio Sado, near Alcácer do Sal Among the Romans there were strong activities of fish processing in Alcácer do Sal This show excavations of pottery and pottery kilns ( Quinta do Rouxinol ) in the area. Among other things, a large Roman wall was also uncovered in 1985 in conjunction with a room that was covered with white marble floors.

After the Romans, Germanic tribes came from 410 AD in what is now Portugal ( Suevi and Visigoth ). Around the year 700 around large parts of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by the Moors, who ruled in the area of Alcácer do Sal to the 12th century. The new conquerors lived in the castle above the town of " Al Kasser ," which in addition to Santiago do Cacém represented the center and the regional capital of the southern coastal region. The castle of Alcácer do Sal goes back to Moorish origins and its walls are still relatively well preserved. An outside tower reminiscent in its design to the castle of Badajoz. The castle walls frame a large inner surface was covered with buildings. In the wall there were two large doors to the north and east. For the Arabs, Alcácer do Sal was more important as a military base as the then already existing Setúbal. Located under the castle old town has foundations dating back to the Moorish period. Alcácer do Sal was time for the ship types of the Arabs a navigable harbor, which was protected in the River Sado Delta. Today, the Sado is sanded and is no longer suitable for shipping.

Alcácer do Sal and his castle were after two months of siege by the Christians under Alfonso II ( 1211-23 ), supported by Crusaders of the Fifth Crusade that wintered on the way to Palestine in Portugal, as well as the Bishop of Lisbon, Soeiro Viegas, on October 18, 1217 taken.

After the conquest of the last Arab occupied territories in the 12th century, the castle of " Al Kasser " still had great significance. Alcácer do Sal was part of the Portuguese Kingdom. The today well-preserved chapel of the 11,000 virgins was as part of the Franciscan monastery with its church of St. Antonio in 1524 by the King D. João III. built.

Due to its location on the Rio Sado Alcácer do Sal was after the Second World War, more and more of a tourist metropolis. This also helps to ensure that the place near the Atlantic beaches of the Alentejo is ( Comporta and Carvalhal ) and the delta of the Rio Sado after the Carnation Revolution of 1974 was made into a nature reserve. While the Carnation Revolution in 1974 to 1976, the cooperatives of Alcácer do Sal were the leading forces in the former squatters and cooperative movement of the Alentejo. The focus of agriculture today is in addition to the sheep, the Korkanbau and olive oil production in the cultivation of rice and salt production in sea salt works in the delta of the Rio Sado. Alcácer do Sal got the Charter in 1997 and is the seat of county government.

Historical Buildings

  • Solar dos Salemas
  • Castle of Alcácer do Sal
  • Archaeological excavations of Senhor dos Martires do Olival
  • Church of the Misericordia de Alcácer do Sal
  • Church Senhor dos Martires Olival do,
  • Chapel of São Bartolomeu and Maria Resende
  • Church of Espírito Santo ( Alcácer do Sal)
  • Church of Santa Maria do Castelo ( Alcácer do Sal) and church Matriz de Alcácer do Sal

Nature Reserve Rio Sado Delta

Only a few kilometers from the town of Alcácer do Sal is located in the delta of the Rio Sado, the Reserva Natural do Sado Estuary, which covers an area of ​​23,160 acres of wetlands and river delta. Here rice growing, fishing and salt production are operated traditional. Nature Reserve is best known for the occurrence of freshwater dolphins living in the Sado Delta. In addition to large amounts of storks which screen the shore of the nature reserve and the rice fields for frogs, there are about 100 rare and protected bird species.

Management

Circle

Alcácer do Sal is the seat of the homonymous district. The neighbors are in the north Palmela, Vendas Novas and Montemor -o -Novo; separately in the northeast Viana do Alentejo, in the east Alvito, in the south Ferreira do Alentejo and Grândola, in the west Grândola (separated by an arm of the Sado River Delta ) and in the Northwest, also by the sado- Delta, Setúbal. Alcácer do Sal is part of the Alentejo Litoral, this is a sub-region in Portugal.

The following communities are located in this District:

  • Comporta
  • Santa Maria do Castelo ( Alcácer do Sal)
  • Santa Susana
  • Santiago ( Alcácer do Sal)
  • São Martinho ( Alcácer do Sal)
  • Torrão

Demographics

Twinning

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Bernardim Ribeiro (1482-1552), writer
  • Pedro Nunes (1502-1578), mathematician and astronomer
  • Simão Rodrigues (1560-1629), Mannerist painter
  • Francisco Gentil (1878-1964), physician and university teacher
  • João Mendes da Costa Amaral (1893-1981), politician and journalist, official of the Estado Novo regime
  • Ruy Coelho (1889-1986), composer
  • João Branco Núncio (1901-1976), bullfighters
  • Leonor Alcácer ( b. 1961 ), actress and theater director
  • Paulo Renato Rodrigues Valério Calado (* 1987), football player
Alentejo Litoral Subregion Freguesia (Portugal) Germanic peoples Afonso II of Portugal Palmela Municipality Vendas Novas Municipality Montemor-o-Novo Municipality Alvito Municipality Ferreira do Alentejo Municipality Administrative divisions of Portugal 1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1991 2001 2004 Mannerism Estado Novo (Portugal) List of municipalities of Portugal Alcochete Municipality Almada Barreiro Municipality Moita Municipality Seixal Municipality Sesimbra Municipality Sines Municipality
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