Felgueiras 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 Felgueiras is a city in Portugal. The city has 15,525 inhabitants ( 2004). The main town of the city is Margaride with about 9,500 inhabitants ( 2001).
History
From the time of the Roman settlement comes several finds, especially the excavation of the Villa of Sendim from the 4th century. The earliest documented mention Felgueiras dates from the year 959 under Portugal's first king D.Afonso Henriques the place probably got first city rights, but the document has not been preserved. King D.Manuel I. renewed the city rights in 1514.
The former small-town ( Vila ) Felgueiras was raised on 13 July 1990 on the city ( Cidade ). In the circle Lixa was simultaneously charged with its four boroughs of the city.
Sports
Felgueiras home to the football club founded in 1933 Futebol Clube Felgueiras. It carries out its home games of the third Portuguese league (as of season 2013/14 ) in the Zona Desportiva de Felgueiras Stadium.
Other football clubs in the county was founded in 1955 CRPP Barrosas (Centro Recreativo de Barrosas Popular População ) from the community and the Idães Founded in 1934, FC Lixa, both of which compete in Divisions of the District Association include postage (as of 2013/14 ).
Management
Circle Felgueiras
Felgueiras is the seat of the same circuit ( concelho ) in the district of Porto. June 30, 2011 had the circle 58 084 inhabitants in an area of 115.7 km ².
The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Fafe, Celorico de Basto, Amarante, Lousada Vizela and Guimarães.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Felgueiras:
- Aião
- Airães
- Borba de Godim (city Lixa )
- Caramos
- Friande
- Idães
- Jugueiros
- Lagares
- Lordelo
- Macieira da Lixa (city Lixa )
- Margaride ( Felgueiras )
- Moure
- Pedreira
- Penacova
- Pinheiro
- Pombeiro because Ribavizela
- Edge
- Refontoura
- Regilde
- Revinhade
- Santao (city Lixa )
- São Jorge de Vizela
- Sendim
- Sernande
- Sousa
- Torrados
- Unhão
- Várzea
- Varziela
- Vila Cova da Lixa (city Lixa )
- Vila Fria
- Vila Verde
Demographics
Local holiday
- June 29
Twinning
- France Pont -Sainte- Maxence in the Canton of Pont -Sainte- Maxence, France ( since 1993)
- Brazil Santa Cruz Cabrália, Brazil ( since 1996)
- Cape Verde Boa Vista, Cape Verde ( since 1996)
- Cape Verde Sao Vicente, Cape Verde ( since 1998)
- Portugal São João da Madeira, Portugal ( since 1998)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Nicolao Coelho ( † 1504), navigator and explorer
- Belchior Paulo (1554-1619), Jesuit and Mannerist painter
- Joaquim Augusto Amorim da Fonseca (1862-1927), physician
- Leonardo Coimbra (1883-1936), philosopher, university teacher and politician
- Armindo Lopes Coelho (1931-2010), Bishop of Porto
- João Miranda Teixeira ( b. 1935 ), Bishop in Porto
- Daniel da Silva Soares ( b. 1982 ), football player
- Helder Filipe da Costa Soares ( b. 1982 ), football player
- Frederico Filipe Teixeira Ribeiro, known as Zamorano ( b. 1982 ), football player