Vila Pouca da Beira

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Vila Pouca da Beira is a comune ( Freguesia ) at the Portuguese circuit ( concelho ) of Oliveira do Hospital. 354 inhabitants live in it (as at 30 June 2011).

History

The place for the first time received city rights in the 14th century, which were confirmed on December 20, 1519 by King Manuel I.. Vila Pouca received his additional da Beira in the 16th century, to distinguish it from homonymous place names. Once it was the seat of an independent circuit until the early 19th century, the town belonged to the dissolution of the circle of Avô in the course of administrative reform in 1836 for this to thereafter belong to the circle of Lourosa. Since its dissolution in 1855, Vila Pouca da Beira is a municipality of the district of Oliveira do Hospital.

As part of the extensive public austerity measures, and thereby announced mergers of many communities across the country, including the dissolution of the autonomous municipality of Vila Pouca da Beira was announced. The district administration rejects the pending resolution of their affected communities.

Culture and sights

In the listed former convent Convento do Desagravo Santíssimo do Sacramento 18th century with the baroque and rococo elements, now the Pousada Pousada do Dasagravo is housed. The single-nave Baroque parish church Igreja de Paroquial Vila Pouca da Beira (also Igreja de São Sebastião ) is from the early 18th century historical monument, as was the whipping post ( Pelourinho ), which marked the renewed city rights in the 16th century.