Mourão 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 Mourão is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 1774 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). .
Geography
The town is located on the eastern shore Spain facing side of the Guadiana, at the upper end of the Alqueva dam. At the eastern Spanish border, it is 6.5 km to the west in the district capital, Évora 56 km.
History
At the Guadiana since prehistoric times people have settled, as megaliths, pottery and wall paintings testify. The most important building of the Romans in the circle was the fortress of Castelo da Lousa in the town of Luz, which is, however, sunk in Alqueva dam today. Not much is known about the time until the Middle Ages, especially archaeological sites today are mostly in the reservoir. The present town first appears in documents from to boundaries between the independent Kingdom of Portugal since 1140 and the Kingdom of Castile. He received first city rights in 1226 from the Hospitallers, who had received the area during the Reconquista.
King D. Dinis confirmed the city rights 1296th According to legal uncertainties regarding Spanish claims D. Dinis offered the site for sale to, and Mourão 1313 came to a Spanish merchant. After this had not applied the purchase price, the king offered the site for sale again, and a merchant of Monsaraz bought the place. Later, King Dinis forced the return of the city to the purchase price. In the Portuguese Revolution of 1383 Mourão was on the side of Portugal, after which it suffered heavy destruction by Castilian troops.
After the governor had in 1580 decided in favor of the personal union with Spain, supported Mourão 1640, the events that led to the restoration of war and to the renewed independence of Portugal. As a result, it suffered another destruction by Spanish troops, who could conquer the city in 1657 to Portuguese forces freed him again in the same year.
The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 the city experienced new destruction so that it was planned and rebuilt in new parts. In the course of administrative reform by the Liberal Revolution in 1822 the county Mourão was dissolved in 1853 and affiliated to Monsaraz, before he again became independent in 1861.
Culture and sights
Architectural monuments include two residential areas of social housing from the late phase of the Estado Novo regime (1969 ), the border station Estação Fronteiriça de São Leonardo from 1928, and a traditional olive oil mill. Even some religious buildings are listed, including the single-nave Baroque church Igreja da Misericordia de Mourão.
The historic center as a whole is also a listed building.
Due to the cut-off position from the rest of the country the place remained one hand back in its economic development. This has favored the other hand, however, the preservation of natural landscapes in the county. Birding around operates here.
Management
Circle
Mourão is the seat of an eponymous district, which borders to the east with Spain. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Alandroal, ravines, Moura and Reguengos de Monsaraz.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Mourão:
- Granja
- Luz
- Mourão
Demographics
Local holiday
- February 2
Sons and daughters of the town
- Manuel da Costa (1601-1667), a Jesuit high school teacher and author
- Marco Paulo ( born 1945 ), pop singers