Mora Municipality, Portugal

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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Mora is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 2516 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).

History

After completion of the Reconquista in Portugal, the Portuguese branch received the Order of Calatrava, who later became Knight Order of Avis, the area in 1211 for colonization. Mora received 1519 first town charter by King Manuel I..

Management

Circle

Mora is the administrative seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Ponte de Sor, Avis, Sousel, Arraiolos and Coruche.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Mora:

  • Brotas
  • Cabeção
  • Mora
  • Pavia

Population growth

Local holiday

  • Easter Monday

Traffic

Until the route closure in 1988 the site was connected through the railway Ramal de Mora to the rail network in the country. In the former railway lines bike trails are now created.

The N2 national road leading from Mora about 40 km south to the motorway A6 at Montemor -o- Novo. About the Mora also passing national road N251 the place with the 35 km eastern Vimieiro and about 40 km west location Coruche is connected, both located on the N4.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Manuel Ribeiro de Pavia (1910-1957), painter and illustrator neurealistischer
  • João Paciência ( b. 1943 ), architect
  • José Croca (* 1944 ), high school teachers, quantum physicist
  • José Vultos Sequeira ( born 1945 ), writer
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