São Pedro do Sul Municipality, Portugal
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São Pedro do Sul is a city ( Cidade ) in Portugal. The place is famous for its thermal baths.
History
1985 excavations demonstrate the scale of the Romans here extensive facilities in the thermal baths, the place was called after their name Balneum long. Even Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques, appreciate the healing power of the local springs, and gave the place in 1152 first city rights ( Foral ). The previously mentioned Banhos place called henceforth the Vila do Banho, and is still the seat of its own circle. After the capture of Badajoz in 1169 recovered the injured D.Afonso Henriques here for a while. His presence led to a lively development of the town, whose sources henceforth demanded recognition and were visited by many former nobles.
King Manuel I was here the hospital the Hospital Real de Caldas Lafões: build ( dt Royal Infirmary of the Baths of Lafões ) and extended in 1515, the city rights of the place, after he had recovered himself in the place. 1884 built the city council ( Câmara Municipal) new facilities of the hospital and the bathrooms. 1894 here recovered the Portuguese Queen Amélie d' Orléans, and since 1895 the place was called Caldas da Rainha D. Amélia (German: Baths of Queen Amélia ).
As a result of the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910 the town received its present name. In 1987, the place new thermal facilities, and in 2001 the modernized original Caldas da Rainha D. Amélia were reopened. They were, inter alia, expanded to include a museum and conference center. The number of visitors to the thermal baths continued to rise, and were in 2012 more than 25,000 guests a year.
The place was levied 2009 Cidade (City).
Hotel in Sao Pedro do Sul
Ruins of Roman baths
Fountain in Sao Pedro do Sul with azulejos
In the spa gardens of the spa
Management
The circle
São Pedro do Sul is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Viseu. June 30, 2011 had the circle 16,935 inhabitants in an area of 349 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Castro Daire, Viseu, Vouzela, Oliveira de Frades, Vale de Cambra and Arouca.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle São Pedro do Sul:
- Baiões
- Bordonhos
- Candal (one of the Schist Villages of aldeias do xisto )
- Carvalhais
- Covas do Rio
- Figueiredo de Alva
- Manhouce
- Pindelo dos Milagres
- Pinho
- Santa Cruz da Trapa
- São Cristóvão de Lafões
- São Félix
- São Martinho das Moitas
- São Pedro do Sul
- Serrazes
- Sul
- Valadares
- Várzea
- Vila Maior
Demographics
Local holiday
- June 29
Sons and daughters of the town
- António Correia de Oliveira (1878-1960), poet, playwright and journalist
- João Correia de Oliveira (1881-1960), dramatist, brother of António Correia de Oliveira
- Carlos Carvalhas ( b. 1941 ), economist and politician of the Partido Comunista Português, Labour Minister after the Carnation Revolution
- David de Almeida ( born 1945 ), artist
- Homem Cardoso ( born 1945 ), photographer and author
- Ilídio Leandro Pinto ( born 1950 ), Bishop of Viseu
- Isabel Silvestre, singer