Vila Nova de Famalicão 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 Vila Nova de Famalicão (in daily life usually only Famalicão ) is a city in Portugal and is part of the Braga District, with 133 804 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). The renowned director Manoel de Oliveira turned in 1941 a documentary about the city to which he repeatedly expressed his sympathies.
History
Finds from the Castro culture evidence of a settlement before the arrival of the Romans.
As part of its settlement policy D.Sancho II founded the city in 1205 and gave him new first city rights. The place was run as Fhamelicam to 1307 in the registers of the king D.Dinis, and appeared for the first time in 1527 as Vila Nova de Famyliquam. He was always to Barcelos until Queen D.Maria II einrichtete the autonomous district of Vila Nova de Famalicão in 1835. The place was in 1841 raised to the small town ( Vila ).
Significant development thrusts experienced the place in the course of the 19th century. The opening of the road from Porto to Braga in 1851 and the arrival of the railway in 1875 favored the industrial and in consequence the general development in the district. The opening of the hospital Hospital da Misericordia in 1878 and the new town hall in 1881 are for documents. 1863 could be the writer Camilo Castelo Branco in the circle down, villa Quinta de S. Miguel in silk, in which he shot himself in 1890. Palace Similar town houses as the Palacete Barao da Trovisqueira emerged. Various industrial enterprises settled here, including 1886, the printing and publishing Minerva or 1892, the watch factory regulators Dora. A large publishing houses, newspapers and magazines were founded, including Alvorada.
Vila Nova de Famalicão was raised in 1985 to the city ( Cidade ).
Sports
The football club FC Famalicão created in 1931, played ( 2013/2014 season ) in the Série B of the third-tier Segunda Divisão. It carries out its home matches at Estádio Municipal Municipal 22 de Junho. In the same playgroup FC Famalicão hits three more clubs of the circle Famalicão, so the Grupo Desportivo de Ribeirão which is located in the municipality of Ribeirão on the Founded in 1930, football club Grupo Desportivo de Joane from the community Joane, and the Associação Desportiva Oliveirense (AD Oliveirense ) from the town of Santa Maria de Oliveira.
Other clubs in the county are, inter alia, the significant Grupo Desportivo de Natação swimming club de Vila Nova de Famalicão and unterklassig playing football club Associação Desportiva Ninense from the congregation Nine.
Economy
A variety of industries are active in the district, especially the textile industry, but also food processing among others The Portuguese meat producers Primor here employs approximately 400 people. The watch factory regulators Dora is the only remaining watch manufacturer in the country.
In Vila Nova de Famalicão located since the first half of the 1970s, the work of the German camera manufacturer Leica with about 600 employees.
Traffic
About the route Linha do Minho, the city is included in the railway network of the country, and the former Linha da Póvoa in the Vorortzugnetz of Porto. Since 2005, the route is integrated as a red line B of the Metro do Porto in the underground network of the metropolitan area of Porto.
The National Road N14 is here extended to the freeway and travels around the city. The A7 and A3 cross at Famalicão, each with their own departures from the city.
Famalicão is integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.
Management
Circle
Vila Nova de Famalicão is the seat of a district of the same ( concelho ). The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Braga, Guimarães, Santo Tirso, Trofa, Vila do Conde, Póvoa de Varzim and Barcelos.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Vila Nova de Famalicão:
- Joao de Vermoim
- Antas
- Arnoso (Santa Eulalia )
- Arnoso (Santa Maria)
- Avidos
- Bairro
- Bente
- Brufe
- Cabeçudos
- Calendário
- Carreira
- Castelões
- Cavalões
- Cruz
- Delães
- Esmeriz
- Fradelos
- Gavião
- Gondifelos
- Jesufrei
- Joane
- Lagoa
- Landim
- Lemenhe
- Louro
- Lousado
- Mogege
- Mouquim
- Nine
- Novais
- Oliveira ( S. Mateus )
- Oliveira (Santa Maria)
- Outiz
- Pedome
- Portela
- Pousada de Saramago
- Requião
- Riba de Ave
- Ribeirão
- Ruivães
- Silk ( S. Miguel)
- Silk (p. Paio )
- Sezures
- Telhado
- Vale ( S. Cosme )
- Vale ( S. Martinho )
- Vermoim
- Vila Nova de Famalicão
- Vilarinho the Cambas
Demographics
Local holiday
Twinning
- France France: Saint- Fargeau- Ponthierry, in the Seine -et -Marne
- Brazil Brazil: Caruaru
- France France: givors
- Cape Verde Cape Verde: Sao Vicente
Sons and daughters of the town
- Tomás Pereira (1645-1708), a Jesuit mathematician and scientist, intermediary between Europe and China (astronomy, music, politics )
- Francisco Torrinha (1879-1953), philologist, and university professor, author of several dictionaries
- Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (1888-1977), Archbishop, Cardinal Proto priest and Patriarch of Lisbon
- Cupertino de Miranda (1892-1988), banker and investor
- José Maria Machado de Araújo (1922-2004), particularly popular in Brazil writers
- Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortigas ( b. 1944 ), Archbishop of Braga
- Carlos Macedo (* 1946), Fadosänger
- Antônio da Silva Lino Dinis ( b. 1943 ), Bishop
- Paulo Marques (born 1962 ), rally driver, ten times the Dakar Rally participants (motorcycle and truck )
- Vítor Paneira (born 1966 ), former football player, international, currently coaches
- Nuno Melo ( b. 1966 ), lawyer and conservative politician, MEP
- Jorge Moreira da Silva ( b. 1971 ), engineer and Conservative politician, Minister for Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy
- Cosme Machado ( b. 1975 ), football referee
- Quim ( b. 1975 ), football goalkeeper
- Mónica Jorge (born 1978 ), football coach of the women's national team
- António Marcelino Ramos Figueira (born 1978 ), football goalkeeper
- Tiago Machado ( born 1985 ), cyclist
- Ukrainians (* 1988), football player
- Hugo Ventura (* 1988), football goalkeeper
- Daniel Ricardo Antunes Ribeiro ( * 1988), football player