Lousada
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Lousada is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal, with 47 217 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).
History
Finds indicate a prehistoric settlement since at least the Neolithic period. The Romans arrived here around the 3rd century BC Iron Age settlements that they romanized as part of its acquisition of land from the 2nd century. A variety of findings and excavations of houses, Roman roads and bridges show a relatively dense Roman settlement of present-day county area.
Lousada was first officially documented previously known in the 6th century AD as São Salvador de Lousada, the place was out at the royal surveys in 1220 as Santa Margarida de Lousada. First City rights were granted Lousada 1514 by King Manuel I, who rose to place in addition to Vila.
1708, the county Lousada extended over 12 municipalities. Enhancements to the number then rose in 1758 to 18 in the course of administrative reform by the Liberal Revolution in 1822 the county Lousada 1836 was dissolved. From 1838 Lousada was independent again, since with 25 municipalities.
Sports
Just on the outskirts of Lousada is the Eurocircuito de Lousada, a small circuit where each year up to 20,000 spectators races for FIA Rallycross and Autocross Championship from local Clube de Automóvel Lousada ( CAL) are organized.
Other sports clubs in the district are the Clube Juventude Hóquei, the Associação Desportiva de Lousada, and Aparecida Futebol Clube, among others. Tennis and karate modalities are more sporting focus in a circle.
Management
Circle
Lousada is the seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Vizela, Felgueiras, Amarante, Penafiel, Paredes, Paços de Ferreira and Santo Tirso. The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Lousada:
- Alvarenga
- Aveleda
- Boim ( Lousada )
- Caíde de Rei
- Casais
- Cernadelo
- Covas
- Cristelos ( Lousada )
- Figueiras
- Lodares
- Lustosa
- Macieira
- Meinedo
- Nespereira
- Nevogilde
- Nogueira
- Ordem
- Pias
- Santa Margarida de Lousada
- Santo Estêvão de Barrosas
- São Miguel de Lousada
- Silvares ( Lousada )
- Sousela
- Torno ( in everyday life known as Aparecida )
- Vilar do Torno e Alentém
Demographics
Local holiday
- Monday after the last Sunday in July
Twinning
- France France: Tulle ( since 1995)
- Spain: Errenteria, Basque country (since 1997)
Economy
In the secondary sector, in addition to furniture making and shoe-making, especially the textile industry here essential.
In the primary sector, alongside forestry and wood processing is primarily the Agriculture a traditionally important factor in a circle. This is especially the cultivation of corn, dairy farming, and the production of Vinho Verde to call, a specifically northern Portuguese wine specialty. Also, potatoes, beans and melons are major crops. Corn and wine were particularly influential here from time immemorial, as can be seen in the coat of arms of the town.
Traffic
The railway line Linha do Douro runs through the community. The 6 km northern district town Lousada is the breakpoint of Meinedo doing next.
Lousada is located on the A42 motorway, which meets here on the running from north to south A11.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Manuel da Cruz (1690-1764), Archbishop of Maranhão, Brazil
- António Augusto de Castro Meireles (1885-1942), Bishop of the Azores and then to Porto
- Jorge Neto ( born 1957 ), politician, lawyer and university professor
- José Paulo Sousa da Silva ( born 1975 ), football player