Vimioso 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 Vimioso is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 1284 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). In the two municipalities of Angueira and Vilar Seco Mirandés is still spoken, the only regional language of Portugal.
History
Archaeological finds prove the prehistoric settlement of the area, including an existing until Roman times Lusitanian Castro- fortification of the place Atalaia, from which developed Vimioso. For the first time officially mentioned the present town was in 1187, when King Sancho I the local area took possession for the purpose of building a city. However, the resettlement took place only under his grandson, King Sancho II.
Vimioso was under the administration of Miranda do Douro, to King Manuel I in 1516 the location of the Vila ( town ) rose, gave him a town charter, and made it the seat of a new, same circle.
Culture and sights
In addition to some stone fountains and historic public buildings include a number sacred to the monuments of the circle, including the nave Mannerist church Igreja de Paroquial Vimioso (also Igreja de São Vicente) from the 16th century. The historical town center as a whole is a listed building.
Four thematic hiking trails have been created in the district.
Management
Circle
Vimioso is the seat of an eponymous district, which borders to the north with Spain. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Miranda do Douro, Mogadouro, Macedo de Cavaleiros and Bragança.
The following parishes ( freguesias ) lying in circle Vimioso:
- Algoso
- Angueira
- Argozelo
- Avelanoso
- Caçarelhos
- Campo de Víboras
- Carção
- Matela
- Pinelo
- Santulhão
- Uva
- Vale de Frades
- Vilar Seco
- Vimioso