Marinha Grande Municipality
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Marinha Grande is a municipality and town in the district of Leiria in Portugal. Within the community live 38 627 inhabitants, the city's population is 31,360 (as of 30 June 2011).
History
1142 Henriques conquered D.Afonso the territory from the Moors. Afterwards people settled at the mouth of Li, who won salt here. The river was still navigable to Leiria. An important factor to the development of the place was the plant of the forest area Pinhal de Leiria under D.Dinis, the most important source of timber for shipbuilding in the country was in the episode. The local production of charcoal, the silicon -containing sands of the region, and the local deposits of clay allowed from 1748 the formation of glass and ceramic manufacturing.
Since 1769 the entrepreneur Guilherme Stephens has been a major driver of the local industry. The Prime Minister Marquês de Pombal gave him for the renovation and reopening of the disused glass factory from 1748 interest-free loans, cheap land arrangements and free supply of wood from the nearby state forests. It developed in the soon active glass industry, and the region subsequently adopted the upswing.
1917, the county Marinha Grande was created, which had already existed for a short time from 1836 to 1838. 1988, the previous small-town ( Vila ) Marinha Grande to the city ( Cidade ) was charged.
Management
Circle
Marinha Grande is the administrative seat of the homonymous district, bordering it to the north and east of the county Leiria, Alcobaça the county to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the county Marinha Grande:
- Marinha Grande
- Moita
- Vieira de Leiria
Demographics
Twinning
- France France: Fontenay -sous -Bois
- Spain: San Ildefonso (La Granja ) (Province of Segovia)
- Cape Verde Cape Verde: Tarrafal
- Portugal: Fundão
- Portugal: Vila Real de Santo António
- Portugal Portugal Oeiras
- Portugal: Montemor -o -Novo
- Portugal: Oliveira de Azeméis
- Portugal: Salvaterra de Magos
Economy
The main industry of Marinha Grande is the glass blowing, and, in its modern form, the production of plastic packaging. With approximately 250 companies that manufacture molds for the plastics industry, the region constitutes a mold of the largest regions of Europe
Traffic
The city is linked by the A8 Autoestrada with Leiria and Lisbon and the Autoestrada A17 north to Aveiro.
At the nationwide rail network Marinha Grande is included on the route of the Linha do Oeste. It connects the city with Agualva -Cacém ( Greater Lisbon ) and Figueira da Foz.
Marinha Grande is part of the nationwide bus network of speech Expressos.
Sports
The Atlético Clube Marinhense founded in 1923, operates football, athletics and rugby. The now unterklassig playing football team of Marinhense bears home games at the Estádio Municipal da Marinha Grande from.
The Portuguese Orienteering Federation Federação Portuguesa de Orientação here has its headquarters
Sons and daughters of the town
- Lúcio Tomé Feteira (1901 - 2000), businessman and politician
- Norberto Barroca (* 1937), actor, writer and theater director
- Lenita Gentil ( * 1948 ), fado singer
- Joana Morais Varela ( b. 1952 ), translator and literary scholar
- José Vieira da Silva ( born 1953 ), economist and politician
- João Leiria (* 1983), actor
- Deolinda Bernardo, fado singer