Celorico de Basto
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Celorico de Basto is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 20,104 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011 ).
History
The Romans came here on a pre-existing Celtic settlement called Celióbrigo or Celóbriga. From the following epochs of the Visigoths and the Moors is not much known. During the Reconquista, the area gained some strategic importance, and the castles of Celorico de Basto and Arnoias were created, some time before independence of the Kingdom of Portugal from 1140.
1520 Celorico de Basto received city rights. From the 17th century a number of manors arose in the county, mostly from wealth -down in Brazil emigrants. The seat of the district was housed in a simple building at the Castelo de Arnoia until he was transferred in April 1719 under the name Vila Nova de Freixieiro in the community Britelo.
Management
Circle
Celorico de Basto is the seat of a district of the same ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Cabeceiras de Basto, Mondim de Basto, Amarante, Felgueiras and Fafe.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Celorico de Basto:
- Agilde
- Arnóia
- Borba de Montanha
- Britelo ( municipality Celorico de Basto )
- Caçarilhe
- Canedo de Basto
- Carvalho
- Codeçoso
- Corgo
- Fervença
- Gago
- Gémeos
- Infesta
- Molar
- Moreira do Castelo
- Ourilhe
- Rego
- Ribas
- Santa Tecla de Basto
- São Clemente de Basto
- Vale de Bouro
- Veade
Demographics
Local holiday
- July 25
Twinning
Traffic
Until the termination of the railway line Linha do Tamego in 2009 Celorico de Basto was connected to the railway network in the country.
About the national road N210, the place is connected to the 18 km north extending motorway A7.
Sons and daughters of the town
- João Pinto Ribeiro (1590-1649), lawyer, archivist of the Torre do Tombo, Knights of Christ, activist of the Portuguese independence movement in 1640
- Ilídio de Araújo ( born 1925 ), landscape architect
- António Ribeiro (1928-1998), from 1967 Archbishop of Braga, previously known by its own TV show
- Augusto César Alves Ferreira da Silva ( born 1932 in Fervença ), retired bishop of Portalegre - Castelo Branco
- Rodrigo Manuel Lopes de Sousa e Castro ( born 1944 ), Military, activist of the Carnation Revolution