Oleiros 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 Oleiros is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 2300 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).

History

The present town Oleiros was first mentioned in a document on a territory donation of King Sancho I of the Hospitalerorden in 1194th First City rights were granted place in 1232, the King Manuel I in 1513 and renewed it Oleiros made ​​into an independent circuit, outside any religious Order.

On February 2, 1811 Oleiros victim of some destruction at the hands of marauding French troops of the Napoleonic invasions. In the course of administrative reform by the Liberal revolution in Portugal, the circle of Oleiros was significantly expanded in 1834. After his short-term resolution of the autonomous district of Oleiros there again since 1869.

Culture and sights

Among the monuments of Oleiros include various religious buildings and historic public buildings. The historical center is a listed building.

Sections of the natural landscape of the surrounding forests of the Pinhal Interior Sul are as Grupo de Unidades de Paisagem do Pinhal do Centro (English about: group of landscape units of the central pine forest ) protected. The existing network of hiking trails in the district will be expanded, and various river pools are created and equipped with infrastructure and water sports facilities. So that the circle is also aimed at tourists, especially to individuals of natural holiday in institutions of rural tourism.

Management

Circle

Oleiros is the administrative seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Fundão, Castelo Branco, Proença- a-Nova, Sertã and Pampilhosa da Serra.

The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Oleiros:

  • Álvaro
  • Amieira
  • Cambas
  • Estreito
  • Isna
  • Madeirã
  • Mosteiro
  • Oleiros
  • Orvalho
  • Sarnadas de São Simão
  • Sobral
  • Vilar Barroco

Demographics

Local holiday

  • Monday after the second Sunday in August

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Antonio Freire de Andrade (1580-1634), Jesuit missionary and explorer, crossed the first European to the Himalayas
Oleiros, Galicia Pinhal Interior Sul Subregion Castelo Branco District Freguesia (Portugal) Social Democratic Party (Portugal) Sancho I of Portugal Liberal Revolution of 1820 Castelo Branco, Portugal List of municipalities of Portugal Belmonte Municipality Idanha-a-Nova Municipality Penamacor Municipality Vila de Rei Municipality
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