Marco de Canaveses 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 Marco de Canaveses is a city ( Cidade ) in northern Portugal. 1996 completed church Igreja de Santa Maria de Fornos of the internationally renowned architect Álvaro Siza Vieira is best known.
History
Tombs and other finds evidence of a settlement Canaveses since the Neolithic period. From Roman times comes the archaeological site of a local Roman settlement, Tongóbriga.
The present town was probably made in the course of settlement policy after the Reconquista in the 12th century. First city manager of the independent administrative district Canaveses was Mendo Gil. 1384 gave King D. João I, the area of João Rodrigues Pereira, Nuno Álvares Pereira a relative of. After the end of the reign of João I, the area fell to the crown.
In the course of administrative reform by the Liberal Revolution in 1822 the district was abolished and Canaveses affiliated Soalhães before, created in 1852 by reorganization of the county Marco de Canaveses. For this, the previous circles Benviver, Canaveses Soalhães, Portocarreiro, parts of the circle Gouveia, and Santa Cruz de Riba Tamego were summarized.
In 1993, the former town ( Vila ) to the city ( Cidade ) was charged.
Management
The circle
Marco de Canaveses is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Porto. June 30, 2011 had the circle 53 569 inhabitants in an area of 201.9 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Amarante, baião, Cinfães, Castelo de Paiva and Penafiel.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the county Marco de Canaveses:
- Alpendorada e Matos
- Ariz.
- Avessadas
- Banho e Carvalhosa
- Constance
- Favões
- Folhada
- Fornos ( municipality )
- Freixo de Cima
- Magrelos
- Manhuncelos
- Maureles
- Paços de Gaiolo
- Paredes de Viadores
- Penha Longa
- Rio de Galinhas ( municipality )
- Rosem
- Sande
- Santo Isidoro
- São Lourenço do Douro
- São Nicolau ( municipality )
- Soalhães
- Sobretâmega
- Tabuado
- Torrão
- Toutosa
- Tuias ( municipality )
- Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada
- Várzea do Douro
- Vila Boa de Quires
- Vila Boa do Bispo
Demographics
Local holiday
- September 8
Twinning
- France Saint -Georges- lès- Baillargeaux in the department of Vienne, France ( since 1994)
- Sao Tome and Principe Principe on the island of Principe, Sao Tome and Principe (since 1998)
Traffic
Marco Canaveses lies with his somewhat outlying station on the railway line Linha do Douro.
About the national road N211, the city is connected to the 13 kilometers north extending motorway A4.
Local private bus lines provide local public transport safely. To this end, the city administration has a Mitfahrsystem named Marco à boleia: set (Eng. Marco hitchhiking ). Registered users will receive a pass and can be governed by the principle of a Carpool provide online carpool.
Sons and daughters of the town
- João Martins de Soalhães († 1325 ), Bishop of Lisbon, Archbishop of Braga
- João Manuel Alexandrino de Vasconcelos (1787-1857), lawyer and politician
- Gaspar Pinto de Magalhães e Aguiar (1831-1922), lawyer, politician and noble landowners
- António Pinto de Magalhães Aguiar (1834 -? ), Mathematician and philosopher
- Adriano António Canavarro Crispiniano da Fonseca (1884-1979), lawyer and politician
- Carmen Miranda (1909-1955), Brazilian- American singer and actress, was in 1946 as the highest-paid actress in the world
- David de Sousa (1911-2006), Bishop of Funchal, Archbishop of Évora
- Carlos de Azeredo ( born 1930 ), an officer of the Carnation Revolution, the last governor of Madeira before the establishment of the autonomous region
- Belmiro de Azevedo ( born 1938 ), entrepreneur, president of the Sonae Group, temporarily richest Portuguese
- António José da Rocha Couto ( born 1952 ), Bishop of Lamego
- Serafim Vieira (born 1966 ), cyclist