Santa Comba Dão
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Santa Comba Dão is a city in Portugal, about 270 km north-east of Lisbon. It has 3392 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). Santa Comba Dão is known for the former primeiro - ministro and dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, who was born in the village of Vimieiro in 1889 and in 1968 lived even after the end of his term until his death in 1970.
History
The first mention of the place in the year 974 AD His first city rights ( Foral ) Santa Comba Dão received in 1102 to drive the re-colonization after the devastation as a result of the Reconquista ahead. King Manuel I renewed the city rights 1514. Through incorporations in the years 1836, 1837 and 1895, the present district was formed.
Management
Circle
Santa Comba Dão is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Viseu. On 30 June 2011 the county had 11,661 inhabitants in an area of 111.9 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Tondela, Carregal do Sal, Tábua, Penacova, and Mortágua.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Santa Comba Dão:
- Couto do Mosteiro
- Nagozela
- Ovoa
- Pinheiro de Ázere
- Santa Comba Dão
- São Joaninho
- São João de Areias
- Treixedo
- Vimieiro
Demographics
Local holiday
- Ascension of Christ
Twinning
- Mozambique Mozambique: Namaacha ( Maputo province ) since 1998
Worth seeing
Among the numerous monuments are particular to the Baroque, built in 1737 Igreja call because Misericordia de Santa Comba Dão, originally dating from the 17th century Mannerism Baroque mansion Casa dos Arcos with its rococo chapel, and the historic town center, with his buildings from the 16th to 20th centuries.
In the district Vimieiro is the birthplace of Salazar. This is not publicly available.
Sons and daughters of the town
- José da Silva Carvalho (1782-1856), politician, several times Minister
- Manuel de Serpa Machado (1784-1858), politician
- Zeferino Norberto Gonçalves Brandão (1842-1910), writer and general
- Maria do Céu da Silva Mendes (1847-1933), pianist and philanthropist
- José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (1858-1927), Governor of Macau and Portuguese India
- António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), economist and politician, 1932-1968 authoritarian head of state
- Virgílio de Jesus e Silva Escudeiro ( 1889 - ), engineer and entrepreneur, railway engineers in Angola
- António Luís Costa ( born 1953 ), serial killers
- João António de Sousa Pais Lourenço ( b. 1962 ), politician and engineer
- João Carlos Amaral Marques Coimbra ( born 1986 ), football player
Major Zeferino Norberto Gonçalves Brandão 1891
Maria do Céu da Silva Mendes
Dictator Salazar (1940 )