Angra do Heroísmo

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Angra do Heroismo ( German as: Bay of heroism ) is a Portuguese city on the island of Terceira, which belongs to the Azores. The city formed from the municipalities ( Freguesias ) Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Santa Luzia, São Pedro and Sé. License Plate AN.

The epithet " do Heroismo " was awarded to the city by the Queen Maria II because of their steadfast staying in the Miguelistenkrieg on the side of the traditionalists.

History

Angra do Heroismo is the oldest city of the Azores and got her municipal law by a Régia Carta in 1534. You was at the same time of Pope Paul III. the Episcopal seat of the Diocese of Angra.

The construction of the cathedral ( Sé de São Salvador) was started but only in 1570th The Cathedral and the city was severely damaged in a strong earthquake in 1980. After 1982 both towers had collapsed, the restored church was then consecrated a second time on November 3, 1985.

Angra do Heroismo is a university city since 1976 with two faculties based in Ponta Delgada University of the Azores; the old town of Angra in 1983 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Angra was an important stopover for trans-Atlantic and East Asia trade. In the bay of Angra decreased from about 1540 to 1650 at least a dozen ships. At Porto Novo in 1996 the wreck of a shod with copper plates ship ( Angra A) was discovered in 1996, which probably dates from the time at or after 1840. From Angra Angra B and C only segments are obtained. The wreck Angra D of a Spanish or Portuguese ship of about 400 to 500 tons displacement from the 16th century has great resemblance to the wreck of the San Juan ( Red Bay ).

The City Park of Angra

Management

Circle Angra do Heroismo

Angra do Heroismo is the seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ); Neighboring district is Praia da Vitória to the northeast.

The following municipalities ( Freguesia ) belong to the group of Angra do Heroismo:

Demographics

Local holiday

• June 24

Twinning

Angra is twinned to

• United States Tulare, California, USA, since 1966
• Brazil Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, since 1985
• United States Taunton (Massachusetts ), USA, since 1986
• Portugal Évora in the Alentejo, Portugal, since 1988
• Brazil Florianopolis Santa Catarina state, Brazil, since 1994
• Gramado Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, since 2004
• United States Gilroy, California, USA, since 2005

Sons and daughters of the town

• Brianda Pereira (1550-1620), mystified anti-Spanish resistance fighter
• João Baptista Machado (1582-1617), blessed spoken Jesuit missionary in Japan
• Cristóvão da Silveira (1613-1673), Archbishop of Goa
• António Cordeiro (1641-1722), Jesuit historian and theorist
• Pedro Francisco (1760-1831), person of the American War of Independence
• Manuel Inácio Martins Pamplona Corte Real (1760-1832), military and politicians
• Henrique Teixeira de Sampaio (1774-1833), politician and capitalist, important creditors of the Kingdom of Portugal
• Francisco Ferreira Drummond (1796-1858), historian, musician and politician
• Francisco Maria da Cunha (1822-1909), general and colonial administrator
• António Joaquim da Fonseca (1839-1870), politician, governor of São Tomé and Príncipe
• Diogo de Barcelos Machado de Bettencourt (1847-1922), lawyer and politician
• Eduardo de Abreu (1856-1912), physician and politician, republican activist
• José Júlio de Souza Pinto (1856-1939), painter
• Jacinto Cândido da Silva (1857-1926), lawyer and politician, marine and overseas Minister 1895-97
• Manuel António Lino (1865-1927), doctor, writer and politician
• Aníbal de Bettencourt (1868-1930), physician and bacteriologist
• Faustino da Fonseca (1871-1918), politician, journalist and author, director of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal 1911-1918
• Alfredo de Mesquita (1871-1931), journalist and writer, Freemasons
• Rui Teles Palhinha (1871-1957), botanist
• João Alberto de Azevedo Neves (1877-1955), physician, university teacher and politician, Minister of Commerce and briefly foreign minister
• Augusto de Almeida Monjardino (1871-1941), surgeon, politician and university professor, Rector of the University of Lisbon
• José Agostinho (1888-1978), military and meteorologist, popular scientists
• João de Souza Mendes Júnior (1892-1969), physician, repeated Brazilian chess master
• Aurélio Quintanilha (1892-1987), biologist, researcher and university teacher, anarchistic opposition
• Francisco Coelho Maduro Dias (1904-1986), poet, painter, sculptor and theater director
• António Dacosta (1914-1990), painter, critic and poet
• Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005), comic book writer (pseudonym Martin Sièvre )
• Álvaro Pereira da Silva Leal Monjardino ( b. 1930 ), lawyer and politician, minister 1978/79
• Norberto Ávila ( b. 1936 ), playwright, poet, writer and translator
• Álamo Oliveira ( born 1945 ), poet, playwright and writer
• Vítor Gonçalves ( born 1951 ), film director, producer and screenwriter
• Carlos da Costa Neves (born 1954 ), lawyer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, 2004/ 05
• Joel Neto ( born 1974 ), journalist and writer, biographer Mourinho
• Luís Filipe Borges ( b. 1977 ), TV presenter
• Eliseu Pereira dos Santos ( b. 1983 ), football player

Aurélio Granada Escudeiro (1920-2012) was Bishop of Angra and honorary citizen of Angra do Heroismo.