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Elevation Of The Village Of Castro Laboreiro, In The Municipality Of Melgaço, Distrito Of Viana Do Castelo, A Village

Original Language Title: Elevação da povoação de Castro Laboreiro, no Município de Melgaço, Distrito de Viana do Castelo, à categoria de Vila

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DRAFT LAW NO. 685 /X

ELEVATION OF CASTRO LABORER, MELGSTEEL CONCELHO,

CASTLE ' S VIANA DISTRICT, TO THE CATEGORY OF VILLAGE

JUSTIFICATION NOTE

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1-GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION

Castro Laboreiro confronts with the lands of Galicia to North and Nascent, with the

freguesia of the Gavieira from the concelain of Arcos of Valdevez to South and Poente, and with

Lamas from Mouro to Poente. Castro Laboreiro has a skyline with the

neighbouring Spain, to where you will be able to follow by the municipal road of the

Ameijoeira (which borders on the galleging settlement of Entrimo).

2-GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

The Castro Laboreiro freguesia is about 88.5 square kilometres. The

North, it integrates a vast planaltic area that reaches 1,335m of altitude. To

South opens up the valley of the Rio Laboreiro and, at the southern end of the freguesia, the river

runs to a quota that does not exceed the 350 meters. To this division of the territory in

two distinct highs came to shape the hamlet in Castro Laboreiro.

This hamlet network originates in the medieval period and will progress

to the south, along the valley, and to the east, gaining the proximity of the plateau,

conquering land on the mound and creating a complex viary network of bonding

between the places.

3-GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION

Castro Laboreiro's freguesia locates on the plateau of the same name,

in full Serra da Peneda, in an extensive area within the National Park of the

Peneda Gerês. Disc of the seat of concelain twenty five kilometres. " Through

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from the analysis of cartography, an axis is observed which part of the Port of the

Knights (Lamas of Mouro), in the direction of the village of Castro Laboreiro. From here,

prolong to the South, along the valley of the inverne iras, by the right margin of the

river Laboreiro. One other axis follows parallel to this one, in the valley, by the margin

opposite while by the right bank of the river the road gives link to the places

of the southern end of the freguesia and by the left margin is accepted to Galicia.

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BRIEF HISTORICAL CHARACTERIZATION

The greatest riches of this locality are concentrated in its beauty

landscaping and in its cultural heritage, consisting of millennia of occupation

human, which, as far as we know today, has started (in Castro Laboreiro),

in recent prehistory. It's on the Planalto de Castro Laboreiro we'll find

the most backward vestiges of occupation, materialized in dozens of

megalithic funerary monuments. " We can affirm that the humanization of the

plateau de Castro Laboreiro finds himself attested and accelerates from the beginning

of the climatic phase of the Atlantic period (5000 B.C.), accepted chronology for the

monuments studied at the Portela of the Pau and that integrate the already referred

set of about one hundred megalithic tombs (mamoas,

dollmens / antas and cists) scattered and distributed by the altitude rechains "

(Peneda National Park-Generese, 2008: 19).

The adventure of human occupation continued. In the following times, between the

Neolithic and the Low Middle Ages, the vestiges are quite diffused. From the Age of

Iron, is suspected of a materialized occupation, possibly, by a

populated in the moray where it has subsequently deployed, the Castro Castle

Laborer who will be able to, according to some authors, deal with a possible caster

romanized.

Several traces of the time of the romanization were referred to and identified by the

Father Aníbal Rodrigues, above all bridges, in his 1985 piece, Bridges

roman and romantic of Castro Laboreiro. More recent studies point out

for a probable medieval chronology, (within the Romanesque style), or even

modern, of most of these vestiges.

From the troubled times of the High Middle Ages the information is also parka.

It will be from the Lower Middle Ages that the history of this freguesia intensifies.

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From this period, it will be the Castle of Castro Laboreiro the monument more

bookmark. The castle was erected at the top of a hill to the South of the village of the Villa

(more central place of Castro Laboreiro and headquarters of the freguesia) and, " ... though

some documentary references allow to sustain that there would exist a castle

previous, the fortification that currently retains date of the second half

of the thirteenth century, being its edification usually attributed to King D. Dinis. À

time of Duarte Darmas design, a small housing cluster

was implanted in the exterior of the fortress, in the band North The church designed by

Duarte Darmas is also no longer the same ... The current parish church is

reconstruction of modern epoch, conserving only from medieval times

an interesting baptismal sink with insculturated decoration of tradition

romanic. " (Sources: 1998).

Castro Laboreiro was seat of concelho between 1271, with foral granted

by D. Afonso III and, 1855. It had, however, new foral granted by D.

Manuel I, in 1513. From the centurion of the foral of D. Manuel I date, too, the

pelourinho, a manueline exemplar of the second half of the sixteenth century, with

enrollment that provides the date of construction, the era and the location. This

monument was disassembled in 1860, to uplift the "Casa Grande" and the

its elements were distributed over several houses of the place, having been

reconstituted by Father Aníbal Rodrigues in 1985.

Finda the position of Castro Laboreiro as the seat of Concelho, in the mid-

nineteenth century, Castro Laboreiro went on to integrate the Melgsteel concelho.

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DEMOGAPICAL ASPECTS

The resident population in Castro Laboreiro, according to the latest Census

(2001), presents a population of 996 individuals, of which 448 are

men and 548 are women. This phenomenon, is a reflection of the migratory flow that

was more striking from the second half of the twentieth century. The conditions

precancerous living, the harsh mountain climate, the scarcity of resources

financial, the absence of the state, formed the set of motivations that

boosted the migratory processes, in the 60. The decrease in

population in the 80 and 90 will have resulted more from the death rate

derived from the aging of the population than with the population outflow.

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We must not forget that the phenomenon of an ageing population is

a phenomenon at the European level. What else stands out, in these circumstances, already

it is not the permanence of the population in their land, but the relationship that the

Castrejos do with Castro Laboreiro, depositing in this territory their

main concerns, their fondly and the interest.

It is to be mentioned that many other families, from other areas of the country, possess today

in Castro Laboreiro housing weekend and holiday housing, which,

jointly, with tourists occupy the tourist homes, determining

so another type of occupation and revitalization. In recent times we have

assisted by the demand for the part of families coming from the large urban centres,

of fixed residence in the said freguesia.

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SOCIO-ECONOMICAL, CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS SITUATION

There were times when major economic activities were linked to

agriculture, pastoricia and the animal husbandry. With the evolving of the times surges in the

last decades a more connected activity to civil construction, trade and

services, specifically those linked to catering, accommodation and tourism.

In agriculture they predominated vegetables, potatoes and cereals,

being the rye the main one. The quantity and quality of mills and ovens

Community are the evident evidence that the cereal production has had a lot

importance in this community. These constructions, today are considered a

historical and ethnographic legacy of great interest. The animal husbandry centered on the

breeding of pigs, vaccum cattle, sheep and goats in the private properties

and in the existing baldiums in the freguesia. With the increment of pig farming

(braised pig farming) comes up, a number of local producers linked to

production of the famous fumer de Castro Laboreiro. The production of honey is another

activity that deserves relevance. Civil construction is an activity that in the

last decades has a prominent place, either with the rise of new

constructions, either with the requalification and recovery of the constructions already

existing. The existing artisanal production in the freguesia is turned towards the

weaving in handcrafted tears. In terms of public transport to

freguesia is served by collective transport of buses and in it are

headquartered a series of car hire the taxis. In Castro Laboreiro

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there is a post of the CTT and the distribution of the mail is done door to door all

the days. Other indicators deserve reference as it is sanitation

basic, public lighting in the whole of freguesia, water at home, collection of

lixos and cleaning of public spaces. In the freguesia of Castro Laboreiro,

we can find, pharmacy, polidsports park, joint headquarters of

freguesia, civic center, inter-parochial center of the High Mouro, restaurants,

cafés, tourist house, pastry shops and bakeries, mini-market, supply of

fish, drugging, commercial establishments linked to materials of

construction, civil constructors, funerary agency, library, rank of

information, museological core and the kennel that uniquely dedicates to

creation of the autochthonous breed of the caster dog Laboreiro. In matters of health

has a health post, to meet the needs of the

local population.

At present, in Castro Laboreiro, many of its natural people have training

top and secondary. Exists in Castro Laboreiro, a Cultural Association and

Sport, Club of the Dog of Castro Laboreiro, Core of Studies of the Montes

Laborers and the Hunting Associative. In the patrimonial Castro Laboreiro

possesses: its majestic castle, with the classification of national monument

since 1910; the most important set of bridges, in which some of them

date back to the Roman times, all of them with the real estate classification of

public interest since 1986, except the new or cava bridge of the old that

welcomes the ranking of national monument since 1986; the pelourinho who

we can observe on the terreiro in front of the church of Castro Laboreiro, is immobile

of public interest since 1933; we cannot help but refer to the matrix church

with a Romanesque moth and with the classification of real estate of public interest.

They also deserve attention to the buildings where the court and the court functionals worked.

Pains of the Concelho. They are still worthy of note, many other constructions,

as being: community ovens, community hoses, community mills and

a few paths. For all that has been referred to, we can conclude that Castro

Laboreiro was and is a freguesia with an unparalleled wealth in terms

heritage and historical. The religious aspect is also very striking,

by having practically everywhere in the freguesia chapels, where

happen the religious parties dedicated to the Holy Padroeiro, signifying a

moment of faith and coexistence. In the cultural field, in recent times we have

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coming to see an increment of activities, vocationally to the public

school and to the local community, from theatre, music, lectures etc. Castro

Laborer, in heraldic terms, is holder of a crest with shield

red, a golden dog spoiled by silver mariana crown; brooding

silver ameid. Silver mural wreath of four towers. Listel white, with the

caption the black " CASTRO LABOREIRO ", which the official approval legitimized.

SYNTHESIS OF FUNDAMENTALS

1-Whereas, for many centuries Castro Laboreiro was Vila and thirst

of concelho.

2-Considering that Castro Laboreiro, with his Castle was a territory of

national defense, and which from 1271 until 1855, was seat of concelho, allowing-

to have you autonomy and self-identity that made you, throughout the

times, had developed a historical role of outstanding importance.

3-Considering that it is important to assign the category of Vila to Castro

Laborer, given that it is after all to recognize a status that always

supported and amped up, recognition this one that is of elementary justice.

4-Considering that the general and local interests in question, well

as the anodic, administrative, economic and financial repercussions of the

intended change, manifestly, thus advises and requires, to

benefit of the Castro Laboreiro gents.

5-Considering that, at the current time, it satisfies what is stipulated in the Law No.

11/82, both in the reasons of historical order (Article 3º (b) of this Law),

as in what is laid out in Article 14º of the same law, where they consider themselves

not only motifs of historical nature, but also of cultural order and

architectural, and, still, because it brings together effective conditions to be asserted

as a village, as it possesses, more than half of the requirements explained and

required in Article 12º of the cited law, concretely to collective equipment,

for there are the following:

-Healthcare post

-Pharmacy

-Library

-Museum

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-Public Transport and Collectives

-Various commercial establishments, hotel and tourism

-Cultural and Sports Association and Core Study of the Montes Laborer

-Civic Center

-Post of CTT

6-Considering that geographical, social, cultural and economic indices

so they justify it.

7-Whereas the historical legacy of Castro Laboreiro reveals itself of

paramount importance, both in the archaeological and heritage strand.

Attending to all the motivations and reasons contained in the statement of reasons

exposed, manifold of current urban and socio-cultural developments-

economic de Castro Laboreiro, under the constitutional provisions and

regimental applicable, the undersigned deputies of the Parliamentary Group

of the Socialist Party, present the following draft law:

Single article

It is high to the category of Vila Castro Laboreiro, situated in the area of the

municipality of Melgsteel, Viana district of the Castle.

Palace of S. Bento, March 12, 2009

The Members,