Tondela
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Tondela is a Portuguese circuit ( concelho ) and a city ( Cidade ) with 4509 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).
History
Various excavations and discoveries of rock art, among other things occupy a prehistoric settlement of the district. Since the Romans, who ruled here since the 2nd century BC, the most important local village was known as Ballistarii. Some portions of the running here Roman road are still preserved. The circle was as Besteiros independently before the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal from 1139 and belonged to the circle Tondela Besteiros.
King Manuel I gave Besteiros 1515 city rights. 1836 moved the seat and the name of the circle to Tondela. 1987 Tondela became a town.
Culture and sights
Among the monuments of the district include, inter alia, archaeological excavations and archaeological sites, historic public buildings, stone fountains, Roman and later bridges, mansions, and a variety of religious buildings. The historical town center as a whole is a listed building.
In the community guardao to find the spa town Caramulo. Through the wooded mountains of Serra do Caramulo Hiking trails. In the whole circle more thematic trails are created.
In the community Lajeosa is the 1994 New opened Caldas de Sangemil whose warm mineral springs have been known since the 18th century for their medicinal properties.
The Caramulo Museum is both a well-known car museum, as well as a major art museum.
Sports
The football club CD Tondela rose in 2013 for the first time on the Portuguese Second League. In the district there are a number of other sports clubs, including the Clube Atlético de Molelos and Sporting Clube de Nandufe, founded in 1925, both of which are known for their football departments.
Management
The circle
Tondela is the administrative seat of the homonymous district. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Vouzela, Oliveira de Frades, Viseu, Carregal do Sal, Santa Comba Dão, Mortágua and Agueda.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Tondela:
- Barreiro de Besteiros
- Campo de Besteiros
- Canas de Santa Maria
- Caparrosa
- Castelões
- Dardavaz
- Ferreirós do Dão
- Guardao
- Lajeosa
- Lobão da Beira
- Molelos
- Mosteirinho
- Mosteiro de Fráguas
- Mouraz
- Nandufe
- Parada de Gonta
- Sabugosa
- Santiago de Besteiros
- São João do Monte
- São Miguel do Outeiro
- Silvares
- Tonda
- Tondela
- Tourigo
- Vila Nova da Rainha
- Vilar de Besteiros
Demographics
Local holiday
Twinning
- France France: Lannemezan (since 1995)
Economy
Tondela is in the Dão wine region, especially red wines are produced in a circle.
In particular, in the industrial area ZIM because Adiça are suppliers to the automotive industry established, but also producers for paints and building materials, including Other industrial and logistics businesses are located in the industrial parks ZIM ZIM de Vilar de Lagedo and.
In various wind farms with about 100 MW electricity is produced in the circle.
Traffic
Until 1988 Tondela had over the distance Linha do Dão connection to the railway network in the country.
The village lies on the IP3, 18 kilometers north of the junction with # 17 (Viseu - Oeste ) to the A25 motorway (Aveiro - Vilar Formoso / Spain) is attached. To the south, the IP3 is about 33 km away in a highway expansion, as the A14 to Figueira da Foz leads from Coimbra.
Tondela is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Tomás Ribeiro (1831-1901), journalist, poet and politician, several times Minister
- José Manuel de Carvalho (1844-1904), Bishop of Macau and the Azores
- Cândido de Figueiredo (1846-1925), philologist and author
- António Quadros (1933-1994), painter and writer
- Nuno Claro ( born 1977 ), football player ( goalkeeper)
- Nuno Piloto ( b. 1982 ), football player