Castanheira de Pera

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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Castanheira de Pera, also Castanheira de Pera, is a small town ( Vila ) in Portugal with 3091 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011 ).

History

Castanheira de Pera The exact origins are obscure. The first evidence the historian Manuel Sousa Coutinho in his História de São Domingo, after a village called Castanheira before the 15th century was born. The first official mention of the town was made in 1467 in an arbitration award of the King V. D.Afonso to area regulations to Coentral around. Castanheira de Pera was part of the former municipality of Santa Maria de Pedrógão before there was a separate municipality in the district of Figueiró dos Vinhos was 1502. 1691 also created the independent community Coentral.

Both communities were part of the 1895 final and 1899 created county Pedrógão Grande. The previously was controlled exclusively by agriculture and sheep farming, rich pasture lands and water community Castanheira de Pera 1860 had witnessed the establishment of the first factory for wool processing and has ever since become increasingly industrial, not least due to the energy gained by the river Ribeira de Pera. Since that time, increasing efforts to make Castanheira de Pera to the seat of its own circle, were intensified in 1913 with regard to ever-increasing tax revenue and population figures. On July 4, 1914 was finally Castanheira de Pena district town, including the church Coentral.

A 1629 written down Legend of Princess Peralta, daughter of the ruler Arunce, which held 72 BC hiding in the Castelo de Arouce in Lousã before hostilities. At the urging of her lover, Quintus Sertorius, a Roman general, she moved with her ​​entourage after the place Sertago. On the way passed her nurse Antigona. She was put a grave stone with the inscription " Antigona DE PERALTA AQUI FOI DA VIDA FALTA " (Eng. about: Antigona de Peralta went here forever, they lack the life ). The legend goes on to relate the goddess Venus have been angry with the princess and therefore sent a thunderbolt that turned the whole entourage in the mountains, and the princess into a mermaid, who henceforth lived in the source water of the mountain. Even the grave stone of the nurse broke, and were to read only the parts Antig ... A EN PER .., from which arose in the legend, the name Castanheira de Pera.

Sights and culture

The tourism industry, in particular in the hiking and nature tourism with facilities of rural tourism has recovered after the decline of the traditional local wool processing and textile industries in importance. Various historical industrial enterprises are now listed, including, founded in 1874 and discontinued in 1997 Fábrica de Têxteis as várzea. Since then, the nature of the mountains of the Serra da Lousã main attraction in a circle. Trails are established. Established in 2003, close to nature theme park Prazilândia is to call as well.

Among the monuments of the circle include historic homes, wells, former public buildings such as city hall, schools, post office, and a variety of religious buildings. In addition, the historical town center as a whole is under monument protection.

The county has several museums. In 2001 by the architect Paulo Pedroso finished Casa do Tempo a permanent exhibition on the history of the press of the place and changing exhibitions and cultural events to attend, preferably with a regional focus. Also in 2001 in the former oil mill, Lagar do corgo a museum was opened for olive oil production. Since 1996, in Coentral the birthplace of Manuel Agostinho Barreto, who later became Bishop of Funchal, to visit the local museum Casa do Neveiro. In 1991, the city Biblioteca Municipal Library has moved to the birthplace Bissaya Barretos.

The swimming pool Praia das Rocas in the amusement park Prazilândia

The waterfalls Veras

Old fountain houses in the mountains around Castanheira da Pera

The Chapel of Santo António da Neve

Management

The circle

Castanheira de Pera is the seat of the same circuit ( concelho ) in the district of Leiria. The district has an area of 66.8 km ² and has 3191 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).

The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Gois, Pedrógão Grande, Figueiró dos Vinhos and Lousã.

The circle had existed since its inception in 1914 of only two municipalities ( Freguesias ):

• Castanheira de Pera
• Coentral

According to laws ruling the two municipalities were merged to form the new municipality of the União de Castanheira de Pera Freguesias e Coentral after the local elections took place in September 2013, which is now congruent with the county.

In addition to the two main varieties are a number of smaller towns in the municipality:

• Bolo
• Botelhas

• Moredos
• Pera

• Sapateira
• Torgal

• Troviscal
• Vilar

Demographics

In the rural areas of Portugal since the middle of the 20th century holds an alternating high-migration trend in the urban areas and abroad. In Castanheira de Pera This trend was reinforced by the parallel event closures of textile factories also.

Local holiday

• July 4th

Twinning

• Germany Germany: glues (Baden) ( since 1993)

Economy

The development company Ribeirapera S. A. is owned by the city and is active especially in the local economic development. Your seat it has in the local industrial area Zona Industrial de Safrujo.

Originally coined by grazing livestock and agriculture circle has developed since the second half of the 19th century and the growing industry, especially in the textile industry. In the 1980s, then began a industrial decline. Since then tourism has grown in importance.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Agostinho Manuel Barreto (1835-1911), Bishop of Funchal
• Luís Alves Tomás (1871-1931), entrepreneur and co-founder of the religious community Racionalismo Cristão in Brazil
• Fernando Barreto Baeta Bissaia Rosa, known as Bissaya Barreto (1886-1974), physician, professor, politician and Freemason
• Ulisses Cortês (1900-1975), lawyer and politician, 1965-1968 Minister of Finance of the Estado Novo regime