Tarouca Municipality, Portugal
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Tarouca is a city ( Cidade ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 8050 inhabitants in an area of 100.1 km ² (as of 30 June 2011).
History
The first documented mention dates from the 6th century AD Today Tarouca belonged to the Visigothic kingdom and was a parish of the Diocese of Lamego. The place was called Castro de Rei and was the seat of a circle. As part of its acquisition of land from 711 conquered the Moors Castro de Rei. Today's local name probably comes from this period, and developed from the Arabic word taroca, about haunted or frequented. Lamego was connected at the time visiting with the Emirate of Córdoba and then the Caliphate of Córdoba, and in the context, the close Tarouca of importance, which was already at the time of the Roman occupation of two intersecting Roman roads and so already traditionally been a relative had significance as a trading.
King Ferdinand of León took Tarouca from the Moors in 1057. Portugal's first king D.Afonso Henriques was here from 1140 to build the Monastery of São João de Tarouca the first Cistercian monastery in the country, where the from 1159 and 1168 developed the Cistercian monastery passed Salzedas followed, on the initiative of Dona Teresa Afonso, wife of D. Afonso Henriques Egas Moniz - teacher. First City rights were granted the county seat Tarouca 1262, even as Castro Rei. From 1364 the town was then already performed as Tarouca.
1896 independent circuit Tarouca was briefly disbanded in 1898 and already restored, now in its present composition. The previously as small town ( Vila ) guided Tarouca became a town ( Cidade ) 2004.
Structures
- Monastery Tarouca
- Monastery Salzedas
Management
Circle
Tarouca is the seat of a district of the same ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Armamar, Moimenta da Beira, Vila Nova de Paiva Castro Daire and Lamego.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Tarouca:
- Dalvares
- Gouviães
- Nova Granja
- Mondim da Beira
- Salzedas
- São João de Tarouca
- Tarouca
- Ucanha
- Várzea da Serra
- Vila Cha da Beira
Demographics
Especially since the 1960s experienced significant emigration waves of the circle. It is estimated that about 3000 Tarouca live -born persons in Switzerland and other European countries.
Local holiday
- September 29
Twinning
- Brazil Brazil: Paraíso do Tocantins, State of Tocantins
- Portugal Portugal Alcobaça
In addition, the following Town twinning in Initiation:
- Italy Italy: Montemarciano
- Italy Italy: Chiaravalle
- Spain: Benaguasil, Valencia Province
- France France: Quincy -sous- Sénart
Traffic
Tarouca located along the national road N226, about 10 km southeast of Lamego and its connection located on the A24 motorway.
Sons and daughters of the town
- José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858-1941), writer, ethnographer, philologist, linguist and archaeologist
- Joaquim Bernardo Cardoso Botelho da Costa (1863-1926), physician, author, military and agricultural. Entrepreneurs, especially in the African colonies