Vieira do Minho 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 Vieira do Minho is a small town ( Vila ) in northern Portugal with 2135 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011).

History

Numerous findings indicate a prehistoric settlement, including Mámoas, menhirs, rock paintings and metal objects. Here was a settlement of the Castro culture, when the Romans conquered the area from the 2nd century BC. The Roman road from Bracara Augusta (nowadays Braga) about Chaves to Asturica Augusta (now Astorga, Spain) was over here. The Suevi conquered in the early 5th century, the area which has been subjected from 711 by the Moors. Over the next Reconquista a castle was built on the original Castro settlement.

Thanks to its strategic location, the area was also during the Napoleonic invasions scene of troops by train, so on March 15, 1809 and then on May 17, 1809, when the French General Soult and his army crossed the bridge of Mirzela.

The independent community Vieira do Minho 1933 new created through cessions of territory of the municipalities and Mosteiro Cantelães.

Management

The circle

Vieira do Minho is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Braga. June 30, 2011 had the circle 12,858 inhabitants in an area of 218.5 km ².

The neighboring districts are ( starting in the north clockwise) Terras de Bouro, Mont Alegre, Cabeceiras de Basto, Fafe, Póvoa de Varzim and Amares.

The circle Vieira do Minho consists of the following municipalities ( Freguesias ):

Anissó
Anjos
Campos
Caniçada
Cantelães
Cova
Eira Vedra
Guilhofrei
Louredo
Mosteiro
Parada do Bouro
Pinheiro
Rossa
Ruivães
Salamonde
Soengas
Soutelo
Tabuaças
Ventosa
Vieira do Minho
Vilar Chão

Demographics

Local holiday

Monday after the first of October to Saturday

Twinning

Monapo Mozambique, Mozambique

Sons and daughters of the town

António José Antunes Sobrinho (1814-1888), in Brazil to riches Come entrepreneur, raised to the peerage in 1885
Bernardo António Antunes (1833-1905), to wealth getting on in Brazil entrepreneur and philanthropist, in 1883 raised to the peerage
Cipriano Ribeiro Freire (1749-1824), of aristocratic diplomat, Ambassador of Portugal first in the U.S., remaining a member of the Governing Council in Lisbon after the flight of the royal family to Rio de Janeiro in 1808
Severino Pereira ( born 1957 ), sculptor, particularly for its glass work known
Manuel Monteiro (born 1962 ), lawyer and conservative politician, former chairman of the party CDS -PP, which he exited in 2003
Romeu Ribeiro ( * 1989), football player

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