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Covilhã [ kuviʎɐ ] is a city ( Cidade ) in Portugal, on the southern edge of the Natural Park of Serra da Estrela. In the administrative divisions of Portugal Covilhã seat of the district of the same name in the district of Castelo Branco, in the subregion is Cova da Beira. Covering an area of 555.6 km ² lived on 30 June 2011 51 770 inhabitants in the county, the population density was 93.2 inh thus. / Km ².

3.1 Motor Sport
3.2 Football
3.3 Winter Sports

History

The emergence of the city of Covilhã goes back to a prehistoric settlement of the Castro culture that probably originated as a shelter Lusitanian shepherd. The since the 2nd century BC incident Romans subjugated and Romanized the settlement.

King D.Dinis made the place secure 1186 with new walls and gave him first city rights. Covilhã remained an important place of production for wool and fabrics, and its population grew. In the wake of the Portuguese voyages of discovery from 1415, tax revenues and products of the place were of importance, and also a variety of local men were recruited for the expansion drives. Name as Pêro da Covilhã, or cartographer Rui Faleiro were significantly involved in these trips.

Its importance to the wool fabric production remained through the centuries an important factor of the place. These are, founded in 1681 Factory School of the Count of Ericeira, and the 1763 created by the absolutist- mercantilist Prime Minister Marquês de Pombal Real Fábrica dos Panos (Portuguese for: Royal factory for fabrics ), today the administrative seat of the university. That there furnished Wool Museum Museu de Lanifícios is counted among the most important of its kind in Europe.

1870, the former town ( Vila ) to the city ( Cidade ) was charged. Since the founding of the University of Beira Interior in 1979 Covilhã is also a university town.

Management

Circle Covilhã

The neighboring districts are Covilhã ( clockwise beginning in the north): Seia, Manteigas, Guarda, Belmonte, Fundão, Pampilhosa da Serra and Arganil.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Covilhã:

Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis
Aldeia do Souto
Barco
Boidobra ( municipality )
Canhoso
Cantar - Galo ( municipality )
Casegas
Conceição ( municipality )
Cortes do Meio
Coutada
Dominguizo
Erada
Ferro
Orjais ( with the Roman Temple of Orjais )
Ourondo
Paul

Peraboa
Peso
Santa Maria ( municipality )
São Jorge da Beira
São Martinho ( municipality )
São Pedro ( municipality )
Sarzedo
Sobral de São Miguel (part of the route of aldeias do xisto )
Teixoso
Tortosendo
Unhais da Serra
Vale Formoso
Vale do Rio
Verdelhos
Vila do Carvalho ( municipality )

Demographics

Local holiday

October 20

Twinning

Portugal Santarém (Portugal, 1992 )
Berstett France (France, 1999 )
Portugal Oeiras (Portugal, since 2000)
France Roubaix (France, since 2000)
Cape Verde Praia ( Cape Verde, 2008)
Madalena Portugal ( Azores )
Laleia East Timor ( Timor-Leste )
Argentina Trelew ( Argentina)
Brazil Blumenau ( Brazil, initiation )

Sports

Motorsport

Covilhã is the starting point of belonging to the European hill climb championship hill climb Rampa Internacional Serra da Estrela.

Football

The place is home to the football club Sporting Clube da Covilhã, who played last ( season 2013/14 ) in the second Portuguese league. After he fought out its home games for years at the Estádio José Santos Pinto Stadium, he welcomes guests today in the 3,000 -seat Complexo Desportivo da Covilhã end.

The Grupo Desportivo Covilhanenses and in the community -based Unhais da Serra Futebol Clube Estrela de Unhais da Serra are two more of the many football clubs in the district.

Winter sports

Covilhã regularly hosts tournaments from, especially the freestyle snowboard Snowboard Tournament Urban Festival, which is part of the Europe championship and Olympic qualifying.

Economy

The textile industry has traditionally been a high priority in the local economy. Also ores are mined in a circle. The mines of Minas da Panasqueira whose main working face today in place Barroca Grande (municipality Aldeia de São Francisco de Assis ) is, among the five most important tungsten deposits in the world. Thus, the Salazar regime, the important war heavy metal delivered in the Second World War to Nazi Germany.

Tourism has become more important, especially as the nation's well-known center of winter sports. Cheese and sausage from Covilhã are nationally known specialties.

In addition to the University are here to give as a regional regional center, also management and trade as factors, including the shopping center opened in 2005 SerraShopping the Sonae Group.

Traffic

With its railway station on the railway line Linha da Beira Baixa Covilhã is integrated into the national rail network. With its connection points to the A23 motorway, the city is also connected to the motorway network in the country.

Covilhã is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.

Covilhã The airport is used by private and sports equipment.

The public transport is ensured by the urban transport Urbano da Covilhã, who operate in cooperation with private bus companies ( in public concession ) bus under the name Covibus. The inner-city lines N1, N2 and N3 are a number of other lines that connect the villages of the district.

Sons and daughters of the town

José Vizinho ( 15th century), Jewish physician, physicist and mathematician
Rui Faleiro (15th century), astronomer and cartographer
Pêro da Covilhã (1450-1530), Portuguese diplomat and explorer, was born in Covilhã
Mateus Fernandes ( † 1515), architect
Francisco Tavares de Almeida Proença (1798-1872), politician, Minister
Plácido António da Costa (1848-1950), physician and microbiologist
Damasceno Manuel da Costa (1867-1922), Bishop of Angra do Heroismo ( Azores )
José do Patrocínio Dias (1884-1965), military, Bishop of Beja
Eduardo Malta (1900-1967), painter
Marmelo José e Silva (1911-1991), writer
José dos Santos Garcia (1913-2010), Roman Catholic bishop of Porto Amélia
José Carlos Loureiro ( born 1925 ), architect
António Baptista Alçada (1927-2008), lawyer and writer
Ernesto Manuel Geraldes de Melo e Castro ( b. 1932 ), engineer, textile designers, experimental poet, author
João Malaca Casteleiro (* 1936), linguists
Pedro Roseta ( b. 1943 ), lawyer and politician, from 2002 Culture Minister in the Cabinet Durão Barroso
Rui Mateus (* 1944), politician, co-founder of the Partido Socialista
Margarida Gil ( born 1950 ), film director
José Bogalheiro ( b. 1950 ), director, university teacher at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema
João Gil ( born 1955 ), musician, co-founder of the group Trovante
Eugenia Melo e Castro (born 1958 ), singer and composer, daughter of Ernesto Manuel Geraldes de Melo e Castro
José Luís Arnaut ( b. 1963 ), lawyer and politician, several times Minister
Pedro Miguel Paiva (born 1973 ), television producer
Carlos Xistra ( born 1974 ), international football referee
Paula Salgado ( born 1975 ), biochemist
Pedro Taborda (born 1978 ), Portuguese footballer
Miguel Gonçalves Mendes (born 1978 ), film director
Bruno Borralhinho (* 1982 ), cellist
João Daniel Mendes Real ( b. 1983 ), football player
Nuno Miguel Prata Coelho ( * 1987), football player

José Sócrates ( * 1957, 2005-2011 Prime Minister of Portugal ) grew up in Covilha.

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