Peso da Régua 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 Peso da Régua (even Peso da Régua ) is a city ( Cidade ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 17,097 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). It belongs to the Upper Douro Valley, the first protected wine region in the world, and has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. Abbreviated or colloquially in the everyday life of the city is often called simply Régua.
- 3.1 circle
- 3.2 Demographics
- 3.3 Town twinning
History
The archaeological excavations of the Estação Arqueológica da Fonte do Milho occupy a fortified Roman settlement here. Today the district was in the wake of conquest by German tribes from the 5th century AD. repopulated. It gained increasing importance as a trading center due to its small port of loading at the Douro, in particular for the wine of the region. King Sancho I gave the place Godim in the 12th century City Rights, to which the municipal area and the small town of Peso belonged.
After the mercantilist Prime Minister Marquês de Pombal here created the first protected wine region in the world in 1756, the present district took upswing. In 1836 the county Peso da Régua refounded by elimination of existing circles and raised his capital in 1837 to Vila ( town ).
With the arrival of the railway line Linha do Douro in 1878, the growth of the place accelerated considerably. 1985 Peso da Régua collected for Cidade (City).
Culture and sights
Monuments
Listed building are a number chapels and other religious buildings, bridges, community centers and various former public buildings. The local train station is also included, as well as the historic town center as a whole. In the listed town house Palacete dos Barretos today is the city library established the Biblioteca Municipal de Peso da Régua.
Exhibitions and Museums
The Museu do Douro is the museum of the first protected wine region in the world and works to a documentation center, with regional educational programs.
Miscellaneous
- Rota do Vinho do Porto (English: Port Wine Route )
- Estação do caminho de ferro - comboio histórico - the steam train through the Douro valley, from Regua to Tua and back - like 100 years ago
- Variety of routes in the city ( Portuguese: percurso urbano ) and surrounding areas ( percurso rural) are applied
Management
Circle
Peso da Régua is the seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Santa Marta de Penaguião, Vila Real, Sabrosa, Armamar, Lamego, Mesão Frio and baião.
The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Peso da Régua:
Demographics
Twinning
- Marmande (France)
- Tain l'Hermitage (France)
Sons and daughters of the town
- Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira (1763-1821), general in the war against the Napoleonic invasions
- António da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca (1770-1858), Officer, Absolutist in Miguelistenkrieg
- Antónia Ferreira (1811-1896), entrepreneur
- João de Lemos (1819-1890), journalist, poet and playwright
- António Bernardo Ferreira (1835-1907), businessman and politician
- Maximiano Lemos (1860-1923), physician, medical researcher and university teacher
- Manuel Vieira de Matos (1861-1932), archbishop of Braga, founder of the Portuguese Catholic Guides
- Antão Fernandes de Carvalho (1871-1948), politician, republican Ministers of Agriculture
- Tito Augusto de Morais (1880-1963), Republican politician, admiral and colonial administrator
- Virgílio Correia (1888-1944), professor, art historian, archaeologist and journalist
- João Correia de Araújo (1899-1985), physician and writer
- António Guedes de Amorim (1901-1971), journalist and writer
- Jaime Silva ( born 1947 ), painter
- Duarte Lima ( born 1955 ), lawyer and politician
- Nuno Cardoso ( b. 1961 ), politician