Vila Velha de Ródão 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 Velha de Ródão is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 1771 inhabitants ( as of June 30 2011).
History
Romans settled here since the 1st century AD. In the 7th century the town was part of the Western Goth, built a castle here is attributed to King Wamba. During the Reconquista, the local fortress on the Tagus was since the 11th century a major strategic point of defense against the Moors.
The place belonged to a gift, the king D.Sancho made the Knights Templar in 1198. 1319 the area came to the Order of Christ. Beginning of the 16th century, the pillory was erected in place, as a sign of preserved city rights ( Foral ) by King Manuel I.
Vila Velha de Ródão was an important inland port for the region, but lost with the arrival of the railroad in 1885 in importance as logistics hub. An important factor in the further development of the town was opened in 1971, the paper mill Celtejo who came to Portucel later.
Culture and sights
Among the monuments are historic public buildings, the Paleolithic archaeological site Estação Arqueológica da Foz do Enxarrique, and various religious buildings, such as the three-nave, originally built in the 16th century, baroque, mannerist parish church Igreja Paroquial de Vila Velha de Ródão (also Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição ). The historical center is a listed building.
Opened in 2008, municipal library Biblioteca Municipal José Baptista Martins offers its library services and complimentary wireless Internet, various rooms for lectures and film screenings, and intergenerational Internet, Photography and yoga workshops. In urban cultural center Casa de Artes e Cultura do Tejo, among others changing art exhibitions shown.
Management
Circle
Vila Velha de Ródão is the administrative seat of the homonymous district, which borders the southeast by Spain. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Castelo Branco, Nisa, Mação and Proença- a-Nova.
The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Vila Velha de Ródão:
- Fratel
- Perais
- Sarnadas de Ródão
- Vila Velha de Ródão
Demographics
Traffic
Vila Velha de Ródão is located on the A23 motorway (exit Fratel ), and, with Fratel and Velha de Ródão two breakpoints of the railway line Linha da Beira Baixa. The place is also integrated into the national bus network of speech Expressos.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Armindo Rodrigues de Sttau Monteiro (1896-1955), politician and diplomat
- Manuel Cargaleiro (* 1927), painter and ceramic artist
- José Moura Nunes da Cruz ( b. 1936 ), Richter, 2005/2005 Chairman of the Supreme Court ( Supremo Tribunal de Justiça )
- José Nuno Martins ( born 1948 ), TV producer, radio host and author