Lagoa Municipality (Algarve)
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Lagoa is a city ( Cidade ) and a circle ( concelho ) with 7248 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011) in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.
History
According to historical sources, the first settlements Lagoas ( Port.: Lagoa ) were on the edge of a small lake or pond built, which was later drained for the recovery of agricultural and building land.
The Algarve region was conquered by the Moors when they conquered the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century and the Visigoths displaced. When the area in the 13th century by the Christians ( Reconquista ) was recaptured from the north, was integrated in the Portuguese States Association. Lagoa was part of the territory that was ruled by Silves. On January 16, 1773 boundaries of the new district ( concelho ) Lagoa were established by decree of King Joseph I.. Lagoa was raised in 2001 to the city ( Cidade ).
Beaches
Lagoa is located on the cliffs of the Algarve; lie between the rocks individual bays with sandy beaches, including Praia do Barranquinho, the Praia de Albandeira and Praia da Estaquinha.
Sports
The football club GD Lagoa is located in Lagoa.
Management
Circle
Lagoa is the administrative seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Silves and Portimão.
The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Lagoa:
Demographics
Twinning
- Cape Verde Cape Verde: São Domingos ( on the island of Santiago)
- Portugal: Lagoa ( Azores islands )
- Spain: Lepe ( in the province of Huelva)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Remexido (José Joaquim de Sousa Reis, 1796-1838 ), resistance fighter in Miguelistenkrieg
- João Castel- Branco Bente (1850-1940), author and physician
- Manuel João Paulo Rocha (1856-1918), historian
- Teófilo da Trindade (1856-1936), military, politician and colonial administrator
- João António Mascarenhas Júdice (1898-1957), historian
- Hermínio Inácio da Palma (1922-2009), resistance fighters, led in 1961 with the Operação Vago the first hijacking of history by
- Fernando Cabrita (1923-1992), football player and coach
- Ernesto Melo Antunes (1933-1999), officer of the MFA in the Carnation Revolution
- Vasco Rocha Vieira ( b. 1939 ), the military, the last Portuguese governor of Macau
- Pedro Martins ( * 1990), badminton player