Gouveia Municipality, Portugal
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Gouveia is a town in the Portuguese Centro region with 14,089 inhabitants (as of 30 June 2011).
History
Presumably through Celtiberian Turdulen in the 6th century BC founded, it was the time of the Roman occupation since the 1st century AD inhabited by Romans and Lusitanians. In 1186 the city received city rights for the first time ( Foral ), by King Sancho I, the King Manuel I in 1510 renewed.
Gouveia was a Vila ( town ) before it was raised in 1988 to the city ( Cidade ).
Culture, Sports and Attractions
The city's art and cultural museum Museu Municipal Abel Manta is housed in a mansion built in the 17th century, and in addition to works by Abel Manta also shows a collection of Portuguese artists including Paula Rego, Júlio Resende, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, and Júlia Pomar. Some other museums are located in the city, including the in 1997 and the nation's only model car museum Museu da Miniatura Automóvel, and the City Museum Espaço Arte e Memória (English about: the space of art and memory ). Other cultural institutions are the public library Biblioteca Municipal Vergílio Ferreira, named to honor of the local community Melo writer Vergílio Ferreira, and the listed cinema Cine Teatro de Gouveia.
In the city, with its traffic, the heritage village, are a variety more buildings under monument protection, including a number of churches, fountains, mansions, and public buildings. At the very mannerist monastery Convento de São Francisco from the 17th century.
Gouveia is a center of the Portuguese winter sports, due to its proximity to the Serra da Estrela. Hiking and nature holidays are offered here, outside the city, especially in rural tourism. A series of thematic trails lead through the surrounding countryside, about 18 km-long archaeological trail PR 3
Several times a gesamtiberische rally for Land Rover friends took place here.
Management
Circle Gouveia
Gouveia is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the District of Guarda. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Fornos de Algodres, Celorico da Beira, Guarda, Manteigas, Seia and Mangualde.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Gouveia:
- Aldeias
- Arcozelo
- Cativelos
- Figueiró da Serra
- Folgosinho
- Freixo da Serra
- Lagarinhos
- Mangualde da Serra
- Melo
- Moimenta da Serra
- Nabais
- Nespereira
- Paços da Serra
- Ribamondego
- Rio Torto
- São Julião ( municipality )
- São Paio
- São Pedro ( municipality )
- Vila da Serra Cortês
- Vila Franca da Serra
- Vila Nova de Tazem
- Vinhó
Demographics
Local holiday
- Monday after the second Sunday in August
Twinning
- France France: Labouheyre Landes department
- United States United States Danbury (Connecticut)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Manuel de Gouveia († 1596), Bishop of Angra in the Azores
- Brás Lourenço (1525-1605), Jesuit missionary in Brazil, founder of the city of Serra
- Bernardo António de Figueiredo (1763-1838), Bishop of the Algarve
- António Mendes Bello (1842-1929), Archbishop and Patriarch of Lisbon
- Eduardo Lobo Correia de Barros, called Beldemónio (1857-1893), journalist, translator and author
- Joaquim Martins da Cunha e Almeida (1887-1979), noble jurist, Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court ( Supremo Tribunal Administrativo )
- Abel Manta (1888-1982), painter
- Henrique Tenreiro (1901-1994), Admiral of the Estado Novo regime
- Vergílio Ferreira (1916-1996), writer
- Aureliano Capelo Veloso ( * 1924), engineer, first freely elected mayor of Porto after the Carnation Revolution
- António Capelo Pires Veloso Elísio (* 1926), military governor of São Tomé and Príncipe