Castro Marim 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 Castro Marim ( antique: Aesuri ) is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 3252 inhabitants (as June 30, 2011 ).

  • 4.1 circle
  • 4.2 Demographics
  • 4.3 Local holiday

History

Finds indicate a prehistoric occupation of the site. Known as Aesuri place was part of the Roman province of Lusitania and end of the Roman road from Pax Iulia ( Beja today ). The following Germanic tribes left little trace. In the wake of the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors built 711 new the local castle. After changing conquests during the Reconquista finally Paio Peres Correia conquered the place 1242.

1277, King D.Afonso III. the castle newly built and was named after the site of the castle of Castro Marim first city rights ( Foral ). From 1319 to 1356 was the seat of the Order of Christ, successor organization of the banned Knights Templar. After moving the Order of Christ in 1356 the site experienced a decline. Only with the first conquests in North Africa at the beginning of the Portuguese expansion ( Ceuta 1415) gained new meaning to the place. King Manuel I renewed 1504 city rights and established the castle restored.

During the restoration war for independence of Portugal (1640-1668) brought the strategic location of the place further increase in importance, and another fort was built. At the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 the city experienced some damage, and he subsequently continued to grow outside the walls.

Culture and sights

The sandy beaches of the circle, such as the Praia Verde or the quieter Praia da Alagoa, but also the castle of the town are among the main attractions for visitors. An archaeological museum in the castle dedicated to the history of the place. From the castle walls the view goes over the vast countryside and nature reserve Sapal de Castro Marim, a wetland with diverse bird population.

The municipal library Biblioteca Municipal and the Casa da Música with her music school, various rehearsal rooms, and the seat of the Banda Filarmónica de Castro Marim are other cultural sites.

Among the monuments of the circle include Mills ( Portuguese: Moinhos ), the cemetery and the train station of Castro Marim, historic public buildings and archaeological finds, including numerous religious buildings, such as dating from the 16th century, neumanuelinisch - Baroque main church ( Igreja Matriz ) of Castro Marim, the Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Martires Paroquial.

Rights- are also the scenery along the river Guadiana, and the historic town centers of Castro Marim and Odeleite. A variety of trails are created in the county, including many thematically oriented, such as the almond tree route ( PR8 ), the Order of Knights route ( PR5 ) or the goat path route ( PR7 ). Also, the salt pans of Castro Marim are worth seeing.

The castle

The Castro Marim called medieval castle is located about four kilometers north of Vila Real de Santo António, to the Spanish town of Ayamonte. The Castro covers a hill on a tributary of the Guadiana, in the Ribeira da Rio Seco flows. Originally submitted today silted bay up to the hilltop town of Castro Marim.

Excavations in the courtyard were in the 1980s, the stratigraphy of a plurality of walls from different centuries. A large fortification wall from the beginning of the 4th century. BC was built by a population that according to the pottery finds had to judge close contacts with the eastern Mediterranean, like shards show rotbemalter Attic pottery. Many Stray finds from the urban area, which date back to the end of the Bronze Age, show that the hill had already been a place of settlement.

After the rebuilt castle was destroyed by the Arabs during the Reconquista, ordered King D.Afonso III. in 1277 their new direction. 1321 attracted a who fled here from France Knights Templar and extended the fortifications. Until the move to their dismantled headquarters in Tomar in 1356, the castle of Castro Marim was the actual seat of the previously established already Templar successor organization Order of Christ.

Every year in late August, a medieval market is held with jousting in the castle.

From the year 1641 a second castle was built on another hill on the outskirts, the Forte de São Sebastião. It was developed in connection with the restoration War (1640-1668), by the Portugal reestablished its independence from Spain.

Sports

The Grupo founded as a football club in the early 1950s Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Leões do Sul Futebol Clube, short Leões do Sul FC (English: Lion of the South), is the most important sports club of the circle. He runs several sports, including football and futsal, roller hockey and roller skating, swimming, mountain biking, and pilates training. In addition, it provides opportunities for recreational activities such as snooker and table football, partly in an organized manner and also directed Tournaments from it. In addition, it should also be understood as a cultural association. So he runs a theater group, and hosts regular festivals, about to commemorate the Carnation Revolution (25th April 1974). In the clubhouse a small club museum and documentation center of the Leões do Sul FC is set up.

Their home games contest since founding unterklassig playing football team Leões do Sul FC in the Municipal stadium Estádio de Castro Marim, as the football club União Desportiva Castromarinense, who also participate only in unterklassigen competitions of football in Portugal.

Management

Circle

Castro Marim is the seat of an eponymous district, which borders to the east with Spain. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Alcoutim, Vila Real de Santo António, Tavira; in the south borders the county on the Atlantic Ocean.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the municipality of Castro Marim:

  • Altura
  • Azinhal
  • Castro Marim ( municipality )
  • Odeleite

Demographics

Local holiday

  • June 24

Traffic

The place is connected by the railway line Linha do Algarve Lagos, Faro and Vila Real de Santo António, and over the motorway bridge Ponte Internacional do Guadiana Ayamonte (Spain). With exit 18 (Castro Marim / Vila Real de Santo António ) it is connected to the A22 motorway and trunk road network in the country.

Castro Marim is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.

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