Cinfães 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 Cinfães is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 3397 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).
History
Megalithic and other finds indicate a prehistoric settlement of the area. People of the Castro culture and nomads from North Africa, particularly Berbers settled here before the 9th century BC Celtic Lusitanians arrived here and fortified Iron Age villages moored.
The from the 2nd century BC ruling here Romans romanized the fortified settlements, and laid bridges and Roman roads to. After Alans, Suevi and Vandals decreased the area from 409 the Romans conquered Visigoths from 456, the present district area. From this epoch little striking findings have remained. From 711, the Moors conquered the peninsula. Various place names are from this period, in addition to excavation of oil mills, remained in the district, about Boassas or Saímes.
His most significant period witnessed the place during the Reconquista, of which a number of religious buildings testify, about the monastery and church of Tarouquela. Probably the first Portuguese king D.Afonso Henriques spent part of his youth in Santiago de Piães, where he was trained by Egas Moniz.
King Manuel I granted city rights in 1513 Cinfães.
Management
Circle
Cinfães is the seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Marco de Canaveses baião, Resende, Castro Daire, Arouca and Castelo de Paiva.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Cinfães:
- Alhões
- Bustelo
- Cinfães
- Espadañedo
- Ferreiros de Tendai
- Fornelos
- Gralheira
- Moimenta
- Nespereira
- Oliveira do Douro
- Ramires
- Santiago de Piães
- São Cristóvão de Nogueira
- Souselo
- Tarouquela
- Tendai
- Travanca
Demographics
Local holiday
- June 24
Twinning
- Cape Verde Cape Verde: São Filipe (since 2008)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Basílio Alberto de Sousa Pinto (1793-1881), professor of Tendai, co-author of the liberal constitution of 1822
- Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto (1846-1900), explorer of Africa
- José Augusto de Sousa Ferreira da Silva ( born 1933 in São Cristóvão de Nogueira, pseudonym Guido de Monterey ), journalist and author ( travel books, ethnographic and geographical- historical books)
- Manuel Madureira Dias ( * 1936 in Tarouquela ), retired bishop of Faro
- António Francisco dos Santos ( born 1948 in Tendai ), Bishop of Aveiro
- Valdemar Sequeira (* 1961 in Moimenta ), composer and orchestra leader