Óbidos, Portugal
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Óbidos is the name of a small town ( Vila ) and a circle in the Portuguese Centro Region and there in the subregion Oeste in the historic area of Estremadura. The place is retarded for his condition, completely surrounded by walkable city walls, and is known interspersed with flower-filled squares historic center.
History
Finds evidence of a settlement since the Neolithic period. The present city name goes back to the Latin term oppidum of a fortified village. Near the fortress town was the Roman city Eburobrittium from the first century AD, according to other sources founded in the 4th or 3rd century BC. Óbidos was in the 5th century part of the Western Goth, up from 711 the Moors conquered the city and re- attached.
During the Reconquista D.Afonso Henriques conquered the place in 1148 for his young kingdom of Portugal. Under King D.Sancho I. Óbidos received 1195 first town rights. King Alfonso II bequeathed to the city of his wife Urraca as a wedding gift. Since then and until the 16th century repeated several kings of this custom, which is why the city is also called the Rainhas Vila ( Town of Queens ).
1636 titular county Óbidos was created, and seven years later King D.João IV had to renew the fortress walls.
Óbidos experienced widespread destruction of its buildings by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, which was followed by extensive reconstructions.
Attractions
- The present city fastening with ramparts and castle was built between the 13th and 16th centuries. The castle was built by King Dinis build in the 13th century, the city wall dates back to 1527 and has remained unchanged to the 21st century. The wall is around walkable; at the castle a Pousada was established. Every summer there is a medieval market in the whole village.
- The church of Santa Maria is originally from the 12th century. 1444 concluded here King Alfonso V and Isabel of Portugal marriage. The church is lined with azulejos and contains numerous paintings of the painter Josefa de Óbidos.
- Opposite the church stands on a raised terrace, a pillory, Signs of the municipal law of the community.
- Outside the walls leads an aqueduct, which was built in 1570 by Usseira forth water to the city. He is still largely intact.
- Towards the Óbidos Lagoon Bird watching is possible paths are created.
The pillory
Aqueduct of Óbidos
Street in Óbidos (1994 )
Azulejos decorate the house in Óbidos (1994 )
Management
Circle Óbidos
Óbidos is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Leiria. June 30, 2011 had the circle 11,689 inhabitants in an area of 141.6 km ².
The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Caldas da Rainha, Bombarral, Lourinhã and Peniche. To the west of the circle to the Atlantic Ocean.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Óbidos:
- A dos Negros
- Amoreira
- Gaeiras
- Olho Marinho
- Santa Maria
- São Pedro
- Sobral da Lagoa
- Usseira
- Vau
Demographics
Local holiday
Twinning
Traffic
The historic center has little traffic, through the narrow streets run the coaches on tours for tourists and bikes. Until the Middle Ages the Óbidos lagoon handed yet to the place and allowed boat traffic, but the access of the town to the waterway silted up afterwards.
Óbidos is located on the railway line Linha do Oeste, the train station is located approximately 500 m north of the town center.
The A8 motorway passes through the place with its own exit, also the A15 ends here, where it meets the A8.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Baltazar Gomes Figueira (1604-1674), painter
- Armando da Silva Carvalho ( born 1938 in Olho Marinho ), writer and translator
The painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630-1684) lived and worked most of her life in Óbidos, the hometown of her father, Baltazar Gomes Figueira. Here she died and was buried here in the church of Sao Pedro.