Esposende
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Esposende is a city in northern Portugal. The metropolitan area is made up of the three communities Esposende, Gandra and Marinhas.
The Rio Cávado flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The place is also known for its beaches.
History
Finds indicate a prehistoric settlement. Mention should be made here of the Menhir de São Paio Antas and in particular the excavation site of the settlement Castro de São Lourenço from the Castro culture. The area was in the early 5th century to Suebenreich, then to the Visigothic kingdom. The etymology of the place name indicates a corresponding Germanic origin of the name of the place, the original and then was Hispanusindus Spanusinde. Esposende was first officially mentioned in a document of 959, as a village near the salt pans of Villa de Fano. 1108 gave an inheritance document of a monastery, the Mosteiro de Vairão, the place Esposende, in which the children of Paio Godin and Goutinho Nunes areas between Esposende, Braga and Vila do Conde divided up.
In the royal surveys of 1220 Esposende (now Marinhas ) listed as a small town in the municipality Zopães. Bishop Pedro helped all the churches in the Archdiocese of Braga's independence, with the exception of Esposende, which was spun off only after several attempts and by Bartolomeu dos Martires initiative of the free from the Verwaltunsgemeinde Marinhas and independent. On August 19, 1512 was finally Esposende to the small town ( Vila ) collected and seat of its own circle. In the further course of the Portuguese voyages of discovery took Esposende recovery significantly, particularly as a place of maritime trade, shipbuilding and the salt extraction, but also agriculture and grazing livestock contributed to economic development. King D. Sebastião expanded the city rights Esposende with deed dated 5 October from 1573.
The continued to Ascended importance of Esposende led to the establishment of a district court in 1898. On 19 August 1993, the former town ( Vila ) eventually became the city ( Cidade ) levied.
Management
The circle
Esposende is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Braga. June 30, 2011 had the circle 34 361 inhabitants in an area of 95.4 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Viana do Castelo, Barcelos, Póvoa de Varzim and the Atlantic Ocean.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Esposende:
- Antas
- Apúlia ( Vila de Apúlia )
- Belinho
- Curvos
- Esposende ( municipality Esposende )
- Fão ( Vila de Fão )
- Fonte Boa
- Forjães
- Gandra ( municipality Esposende )
- Gemeses
- Mar
- Marinhas ( municipality Esposende )
- Palmeira de Faro
- Rio Tinto
- Vila Cha
Demographics
Local holiday
Twinning
- France Ozoir -la -Ferriere, France
- Cape Verde São Domingos, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Traffic
The city is situated with its own junction on the A28 motorway, which runs from north to Porto coming into the Spanish Galicia.
The nearest rail service, some 15 km east railway station of Barcelos at the track Linha do Minho.
Esposende is part of the nationwide long-distance bus network of speech Expressos.
Public transport in the county is served by bus lines of the company Litoral Norte.
Sons and daughters of the town
- António Rodrigues Sampaio (1806-1882), journalist and liberal politician, several times Minister of the Interior, in 1881 briefly Prime Minister
- Tiago Augusto de Almeida (1864-1936), physician and university teacher
- António Rodrigues Alves de Faria (1871-1949), entrepreneur, arrived in Brazil on asset
- Fonseca Lima (1874-1945), Republican politician
- Manuel de Barros (1908-1971), Astronomer
- Abel Vinha dos Santos (1912-1939), writer
- Viana de Lima (1913-1991), architect
- José Gonçalo Correia de Oliveira (1921-1976), politician, several times minister in the authoritarian Estado Novo regime
- João Maria de Oliveira Martins (1934-2011), Conservative politician and engineer, several times Minister
- Bernardete Costa ( born 1949 ), writer
- António Couto dos Santos ( born 1949 ), politician and engineer, several times Minister
- Ana Maria De Sá Fernandes ( * 1987 in Vila Cha ), football player
The painter Henrique Medina (1901-1988) and the writer António Correia de Oliveira (1878-1960) died in Esposende.
Fonseca Lima
António Rodrigues Alves de Faria
António Couto dos Santos
Monument to Henrique Medina in Esposende