Sernancelhe Municipality
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Sernancelhe is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 5699 inhabitants in an area of 228.6 km ². (as at 30 June 2011)
History
Traces show a prehistoric settlement since about 3000 BC Also Romans lived here. The present town was founded in the course of settlement policy in the context of the Reconquista new. The first mention of the modern village dates from the year 960 AD the late 10th century conquered the castle of Almansor Sernancelhe until 1055 Ferdinand I. the Moors expelled from the region.
First City rights were granted place in 1124, the King Alfonso II in 1220 confirmed. King Manuel I renewed the city rights 1514.
Management
Circle
Sernancelhe is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Tabuaço, São João da Pesqueira, Penedono, Trancoso, Aguiar da Beira, Sátão and Moimenta da Beira.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Sernancelhe:
- Arnas
- Carregal
- Chosendo
- Cunha
- Escurquela
- Faia
- Ferreirim
- Fonte Arcada
- Freixinho
- Granjal
- Lamosa
- Macieira
- Penso
- Quintela
- Sarzeda
- Sernancelhe
- Vila da Ponte
Demographics
Local holiday
- May 3
Twinning
- France France: Jacou, Hérault
- Cape Verde Cape Verde: Paúl island of Santo Antão
Sons and daughters of the town
- João Rodrigues ( † 1633), a Jesuit missionary in Japan, linguist and translator
- António Ribeiro Saraiva (1800-1890), military, politician, journalist and author, ambassador to England
- Aquilino Ribeiro (1885-1963), writer, versatile connected to Germany
- Armando Figueiredo de Lucena (1886-1975), painter, art historian and university teacher
- António Cardoso Cunha (1915-2004), Bishop of Beja and Vila Real