Salir de Matos
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank, also called Salir de Matos Salir dos Matos, is a Portuguese parish ( freguesia ) in the district of Caldas da Rainha and in the District of Leiria, located in the historic province of Estremadura. It has an area of 24.6 km ² and 2576 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). To the community includes 25 villages and hamlets. The main town Salir de Matos is located 5 km north-east of Caldas da Rainha and 27 km south-west of Alcobaça and 13 km from São Martinho do Porto on the Atlantic Ocean. The population, as far as it does not work in the local supply serving commercial, still lives mainly from agriculture, there above all the fruit and vegetable growing and wine growing. Due to its close proximity to the tourist is rapidly developing region between Óbidos and São Martinho do Porto also gained increasing importance as Salir de Matos on local settlement area. The region itself suffers greatly from the decline of agriculture, everywhere you can see the terraces, pull up on the slopes of up to 300 meters high mountains and used to dominate the cultural landscape will be forfeited. Even in the middle of the last century many residents of the region migrated to France and in the United States.
Roman past
This Salir de Matos can look at a not insignificant historical past. So you found there traces of Roman settlement in the form of a grave stone with information on the funeral of a 35 - year-old woman born in Collipo as a Roman city located in Leiria said. Just 8 km from Salir de Matos was away at the time up there reaching Lagoon Alfeizerão another Roman town, probably Araducta until a few years ago had there still suspects the city Eburobritium, but then removed the nearby 20 km City Óbidos has been demonstrated. The Moors named after the occupation of the Iberian Peninsula around this city of 711 in Alfeizerão. The city remained up to the drying up of the lagoon in the 18th century an important port and a center for shipbuilding. From the lagoon itself Salir de Matos was only 3 km away.
Rule of the abbey of Alcobaça
After the liberation of Portugal from the dominion of the Moors Salir de Matos was one of the 13 cities of Couto de Alcobaça, which belonged until 1834 to the secular dominion of the Abbey of Alcobaça, the 1153 first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques ( 1109-1185 ), the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux, French, Bernard of Clairvaux had given, an approximately 500 km ² located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Serra dos Candeeiros area. Together with the then neighboring cities Alvorninha and Santa Catarina and to São Martinho do Porto belonging town Salir do Porto it formed the southern boundary of Couto de Alcobaça. Probably the abbot granted free Martinho III. already in 1300 a development right or even a free hand to reclaim the embossed mainly of forests and wild meadows area, which circumscribes the Portuguese term matos. The name component Salir is derived from the original Latin word salire ( jump ), which in Spanish as in Portuguese (under omission of the "l" to sair changing ) the importance of output, assumed departure and probably expressed the border location of the territory of the abbey. A similar importance is attributed also the name of the place Salir do Porto, which also formed the border of the territory of the abbey on the southern side of the port of São Martinho.
City of Couto de Alcobaça
1514 Salir de Matos received as part of the Couto de Alcobaça by King Manuel I ( 1469-1521 ) carried out the general restructuring of the city, a new city statute that granted the city autonomy and the lower courts, but keeping the Abbey remained tributary, as their general Jusitzhoheit persisted. At that time belonged to the city Salir de Matos already 20 other settlements. The jurisdiction of the abbey was confirmed by an erected as in other cities of Couto whipping post ( Pelourinho Portuguese ). The city employed its own town clerk and two judges. Of these urban facilities but nothing has come down to the present. The church dedicated to the Holy António dates from the 18th century, its predecessor is probably the earthquake of 1755 (which became known as the Lisbon earthquake in the history ) fallen victim to other chapels have disappeared. From a still existing home is thought that it could have served as accommodation for the monks of the abbey during their visits. Just a few hundred meters from the village today can still be found the remains of an ancient monastic Quinta, Quinta do Formigal with an old chapel.
Modern Times
Salir de Matos lost in 1834 with the termination of the rule of the abbey as a result of the state closing of the monasteries in Portugal, the town charter and went in 1836 in the county of Caldas da Rainha on. By the 17th century accelerating drying up of about 4 km wide and 10 km long lagoon Alfeizerão - left over from the today only the approximately 1400 x 900 m large lagoon in São Martinho de Porto - was the entire south- western region Couto of their economic base has been removed, presumably also Salir de Matos had drawn deep.