Valado dos Frades

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Valado dos Frades is located in the district of Nazaré in the district of Leiria, in the historical province of Estremadura a Portuguese parish ( freguesia ). It has city rights ( Vila ). Valado dos Frades has 3107 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011 ) and is 18.5 km ².

History

Valado dos Frades is located six kilometers from Nazaré and Alcobaça away and goes back to a program begun in the 12th century colonization by the monks of the abbey of Alcobaça. At that time, still covered lagoon Pederneira until shortly before the gates Alcobaca, but was in its border zones already in a state of siltation, particularly in the area of the present town Valado dos Frades where on the northern shore of the lagoon, the monks had founded an estate, the Quinta do Valado, and the draining of the marshes operated. From here derives its name, which Valado indicated both on the Portuguese word stem vala for digging as well as the Latin of vallum / Vallus for pile, Wall, so that Valado dos Frades mutatis mutandis stands for bog ditches of the monks.

Quinta do Campo

From the Quinta de Valado the Quinta do Campo, in the abbey of Alcobaça ran a school for agriculture and hydraulic engineering in the 14th century. From here, the monks had on their actual territory, with the Couto de Alcobaça, in addition, the draining of the marshes in the whole country. The Quinta do Campo is the only one in its original structure preserved today Grange ( granja ) of the former abbey. This statement is now for tourist purposes.

Presence

Today Valado dos Frades is a small town with a thriving pottery and porcelain industry but also with a significant agriculture, which uses the lessons from the monks fertile soils, still crisscrossed by many trenches with fruit and vegetable cultivation. It has since 1887 about the only rail connection in the region. About him came up to the beginning of the 20th century, many pilgrims to Nazaré to the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré, which until then since the Middle Ages important Marian pilgrimages center of Portugal.