Fundão, Portugal
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Fundão [ fũdɐũ ] is a city in Portugal with 9268 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).
- 4.1 Railway
- 4.2 bus
- 4.3 highway
History
Finds from the Bronze Age evidence of a settlement since the Castro culture. From the period of Roman occupation are, inter alia, Villas and houses have been found. The present town was probably in connection with the re- settlement of the area in the course of the Reconquista and the establishment of the independent Kingdom of Portugal 1140.
The surveys under King D.Dinis in 1314 the place is run as a larger community. Only in the course of the 15th and especially the 16th century, the place takes on a more significant development, as here Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, settled here. As a result, the population grew, and early factories emerged. The interior of the Real Fábrica - Escola (German: royal factory and school) by the Marquês de Pombal in the 17th century marks a further development thrust of the place, especially by textile industry and wool processing. In 1747 he became the seat of its own circle.
The since 1747 as Vila ( town ) guided Fundão was raised in 1988 to the Cidade (City).
Culture, Sports and Attractions
Among the numerous monuments of the place include numerous religious buildings, mansions and fountains, to various historical public buildings. The present Town Hall ( Câmara Municipal) is housed in the former Real Fábrica de Lanifícios do Fundão, which was founded by the Marquês de Pombal in 1755 textile factory and school. The historical town center as a whole is a listed building.
Since 1998 takes place in the heritage cinema Cine - Teatro Gardunha the International Short Film Festival Imago - International Young Film Festival instead.
The Associação founded in 1955 Desportiva do Fundão is the most important sports club of the circle. He is known especially for his futsal department, which plays in the Portuguese League and play their home games discharges in the municipal sports complex Pavilhão Municipal do Fundão.
Management
The circle
Fundão is the seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Covilhã, Belmonte, Sabugal Penamacor, Idanha -a-Nova, Castelo Branco, Oleiros and Pampilhosa da Serra.
The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Fundão:
- Alcaide
- Alcaria
- Alcongosta
- Aldeia de Joanes
- Aldeia Nova do Cabo
- Alpedrinha
- Atalaia do Campo
- Barroca
- Bogas de Baixo
- Bogas de Cima
- Capinha
- Castelejo
- Castelo Novo
- Donas
- Enxames
- Escarigo
- Fatela
- Fundão
- Janeiro de Cima
- Lavacolhos
- Mata da Rainha
- Orca
- Pêro Viseu
- Póvoa de Atalaia
- Salgueiro
- Silvares
- Soalheira
- Souto da Casa
- Telhado
- Vale de Prazeres
- Valverde
Population Development
Twinning
- Cape Verde Cape Verde: Tarrafal ( cooperation agreement since 2008)
The city also is twinned with the Portuguese cities of Vila Real de Santo António, Marinha Grande and Montemor -o- Novo.
Traffic
Railway
The city is connected to the national rail network of Comboios de Portugal. It is a stop on the Linha da Beira Baixa, which runs from Entroncamento to Guarda.
Bus
The city is part of the nationwide bus network of speech Expressos, also provide regional bus public transport safely. In the town itself, a circular line is traced since 2009 with two urban minibuses.
Highway
The city is connected by the A23 motorway, with locations Guarda and Torres Novas.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jorge da Costa (1406-1508), clergyman from Alpedrinha, Archbishop of Braga and Lisbon
- Martinho da Costa (1434-1521), clergyman from Alpedrinha, Archbishop of Lisbon, the brother of Jorge da Costa
- Fernando Luís Mouzinho de Albuquerque (1817-1890), military, journalist, author, and entrepreneur deputy
- João Franco Ferreira Pinto Castelo Branco (1855-2005), politician from Alcaide, 1906-1908 Prime Minister of Portugal
- João Carlos Nogueira da Silva (1872-1954), Admiral of Vale de Prazeres, Governor of the Azores
- João Alexandre Lopes Galvão (1874-1951), Military of Orca, a railway engineer, especially in the colonies of Angola and Mozambique
- João de Oliveira Matos Ferreira (1879-1962), Auxiliary Bishop of Guarda
- José Saraiva (1881-1946), headmaster and government adviser, José Hermano Saraiva father of
- Joaquim Guerra (1908-1994), Jesuit from Lavacolhos, important Sinologist and translator
- Raúl Chorão Ramalho (1914-2001), architect
- Eugénio de Andrade (1923-2005), poet from Póvoa de Atalaia
- Celeste Rodrigues (* 1923 in Fundão ), fado singer
- Albano Dias Martins ( born 1930 ), poet, translator and university teacher
- Arlindo de Carvalho ( born 1930 ), musician
- Daniel Proença de Carvalho ( born 1941 ), lawyer and former minister
- Lia Gama ( born 1944 ), actress from Barroca
- José Manuel Barata Feyo ( b. 1947 ), television and print journalist from Soalheira
- Alexandra ( born 1950 as Maria José Canhoto in Soalheira ), singer
- Joaquim Rolão Preto ( b. 1959 ), football coach from Soalheira
- Bévinda ( b. 1961 ), French - Portuguese singer
- Bruno Pais (* 1981), Triathlete, Olympian 2008