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DRAFT LAW NO. 525 /X
ELEVATION TO THE VILLAGE CATEGORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE
LADY OF THE POPUP
I-Introduction
Integrated in the Valley of the Sousa, the county of Lousada, considered
one of the youngest concelhos in the European Union, account for about
of 49 thousand inhabitants, distributed over 95 square kilometres,
with 25 freguesies.
In the latter part of the county, the freguesias of Torno are located and
Vilar of the Torno and Alentém that account for more than 3200 voters.
These freguesies find themselves strategically located in the face of
road network, where it is possible to access A4 (link to Porto / Vila Real)
and at A11 (link to Lousada / Porto or Lousada / Guimarães) with
ease. The freguesies arise close to the railway network
used daily by hundreds of people.
There are still public careers of collective transport that
ensure the connection between both, to the seat of the county and still to the
Port.
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It is a continuous cluster that is asserted by the
preservation of their history, of their customs and legends having
present the new challenges of modernity.
II-Historical framework
Freguesia of the Torno
Willing on the west slope of the Serra da Cumieira and stretching-
if up to the fertile margins of the Sousa, the freguesia of Torno, or
Appearing, as it is most comumly recognized, offers a
of the most beautiful and extensive views of the Valley of the Sousa.
Until the middle of the nineteenth century it belonged to the extinct concelho of
Unhão, having then been attached to the Lousada concelho. Already in
finals of the same century passed from the Archbishopric of Braga, to which
has belonged over the course of more than 600 years, to the Diocese of Porto.
The Torno matrix is a very caregiver building building
according to the best patterns of the architecture of its time, of
principles of Setecents. On its facade, the occulus and a cross of the
Templars are certainly reprofitments of a construction
previous, possibly, of medieval root.
In a prominent cabal of the settlement is the chapel of N. S. da
Conception, reedified during the second half of the eighteenth century,
according to the architectural patterns of the Baroque.
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Later, already in the nineteenth century, it is developed the huge
devotion to N. S. Aparecida that still today translates annually
in one of the most authentic and competed romices of the North. The cult
the N. S. Aparecida originates from the miraculous emergence of the duma
image of Our Lady in a lapse under the chapel of N. S. da
Conceit.
The sanctuary is not only a major devotional centre of great importance,
how it also constitutes as a true cultural polo and
heritage, in addition to being the miradouro, par excellence, of the
fecund and bulky Sousa Valley. The temple is the center of the big
would break up to the Lady Aparecida who, every year, since the second
nineteenth century, brings thousands of people to this land.
De Torno are natural some individualities that much
contributed to the development of the land and the county. Between
them some presidents of the City Hall of Lousada. Joseph
Manuel da Silva Teles, born in the House of the Outer, took over the
post between 1841 and 1842. It was during his tenure that the
township of the Torrão was elevated the village with the designation of
Lousada. José Joaquim Costa Pacheco of France, was born
likewise in the freguesia of Torno, in the House of the Tower. It was president
of the House between 1845 and 1846. Already during the twentieth century, between 1923
and 1927, held the post of Speaker of the House, Gaspar António
Pereira Guimarães, coming from the House of Rio.
Abílio Magalhães was another of the most influential personalities in the
freguesia of Torno. Owner of the Journal Life Nova, seated and printed
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in the same freguesia, involved in polemical acérrims in the
defence of the interests of your land. Promoted the installation of light
electric and primary schools and was a major
responsible for the creation of the Largo of the Fair
Freguesia de Vilar do Torno and Alentém
Pending, equally, from the Serra da Cumieira to the
more flat surfaces contiguous to the Sousa, this freguesia
retains strong agricultural traditions, especially linked to the
production of wine.
The land was during several centuries divided between two concelhos
extinct: a part of Unhão the other of Santa Cruz de Riba
Tâmega. The freguesia of Alentém was extinguished in 1834 being
incorporated in the de Vilar de Torno.
The Church of St. Mamede of Alentém has lost the status of matrix
since the parish was incorporated in the de Vilar do Torno. This is about
of a simple construction of eighteenth-century endings, suffering
some improvements already in the course of the nineteenth century.
The Church Matrix is a mixed of ancient and modern architecture:
fix your capel-mor that you can consider from a
very late Romanesque, probably from endings of the thirteenth century.
The Medieval Tower, also popularly known by Tower of the
Moors, is a monument of late thirteenth century, beginning of the century
XIV. It adopts, still, some solutions of the Romanesque. Will not have had
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any strategic role of defence, but of manifestation of
senhorial power. This monument integrates the Route of the Romanesque of the
Valley of the Sousa, having recently been reclaimed.
In Alentém it is possible to observe a small lagar tailored in the
rock, certainly associated with the vineyard production, datable from the Age
Average.
Equally highly punctuated by magnificent solar families of
ancestral traditions, Vilar of the Torno and Alentém saw birth some
of the most prestigious personalities locally and nationally.
The visconde (and later conde) of Alentém, in addition to having
assumed the post of Speaker of the House for five times to the
long of the second half of the nineteenth century, had a seat in the House
of the Deputies in four legislative sessions, being equally
Pair of the Kingdom.
Coming from the House of Vilar, Colonel Julius Augusto de Castro
Beans presided over edility between 1919 and 1922.
Álvaro Pacheco Teixeira Rebelo de Carvalho, from the House of
Pereiras, was another Speaker of the City Hall of Lousada
between the years 1939 and 1941.
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III-Collective, cultural and associations
There are numerous public and private collective equipment to
provision of the population.
So, in the area of health, the population has at its disposal a
high number of equipment as a Pharmacy, to be operated
since 1888, a Dental Clinic and still a Medical Clinic and
Nursing, in addition to private consultans of doctors of
family.
In what concerne cultural equipment, there is to highlight the
own facilities of some collectivities that are asserted in the
freguesias for the number of activities that carry out and still
by the accession of the population. Thus, it is necessary to highlight the Group
Folkloric of the Cultural and Recreational Association of the Lady
Appearing, with own headquarters for essays serving as yet
room of spectacles.
There are still other collectivities with annual activity plan
and with own spaces such as the Sport Association and
Recreational of S. Mamede, Columbophila Lady Society
Appearing and Development Association " Despertar Vilar do
Around and Alentém ".
In the sporting area it is signed a relevant set of
collectives that play a pivotal role in the fomenting of the
local associativism. Thus, the Aparecida Football Club, founded in
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1931, emerges with highlight, where to highlight the participation of the various
teams, from infants to seniors, at local championships,
regional and even national. It should still be mentioned the Group
Sporting de Vilar do Torno and Alentém, the Cycling Association
of the Valley of the Sousa, the Sports Group of the Xisto, The Group
Sport of the Poldras and still the Vale Cycling Association
from the Sousa and still the Columbophila Lady Aparecida Society.
The seat of the Torno and Vilar Freguesia Juntas of the Torno were
built in the last decade and primed for the quality of their
spaces. Thus, they both dispose of a mini-auditorium, with
capacity for 100 people sitting, who are often
used for the realization of the show, in particular sessions
of theatre and music. At the headquarters of the Torno Freguesia Junta
works an Internet Space, inaugurated in 2007, which
makes available 14 access posts, at the disposal of the entire population
free of charge and free. At the headquarters of the Vilar Freguesia Junta of the
Around and Alentém works a space dedicated to ATL (Atelier de
Leisure Time) intended for the newest and still a UNIVA
(Integration Unit in Active Life).
In what concerne the service equipment stands out to
existence of a CTT Station, to function in normal time.
It is also necessary to mention the existence of a banking agency.
In education, the population has at the disposal three buildings of the pre-
school and three more schools from the 1 th cycle. The school equipment
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they have educational support infrastructure, such as rooms for
curricular enrichment activities or extension of
schedules, canteens, school libraries and still spaces for the
practice of sports activities.
The existing school offer in the freguesias contemplates still a
private institution, designated from "Externato Lady do Carmo"
who lects from the preschool until the 3 th cycle. The quality of this
institution was recently recognized with the assignment of a
ibero-American award of educational excellence.
Disseminated by the freguesias, it is possible to find with relative
ease, due to the excellent connecting road network, a set
extended and diversified of commercial establishments, with
bakeries, restaurants, insurance agencies, grocery stores, talhos,
supermarkets houses of household appliances, drugstores, pumps of
gasoline, among many others.
The industry also notes significant presence with special
incidence in the textiles and footwear sector.
In what concerne to the hotel, there is in the two freguesias an offer
of accommodation that oscills between housing tourist homes, with
10 bedrooms, and a residential with three stars, with 120 bedrooms.
In this scope there is still a high number of restaurants and
recommended cellars that, for their quality and service, integrate
a tour package protagonised by the House of Lousada,
titled "Rotas Gourmet".
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IV-Appreciation of the legal criteria and conclusions
Initially regulated by the provisions of Law No. 11/82, 2 of
June, the regime for the creation of freguestics and designation and
determination of the category of the stands is today deeply
changed.
If it is certain that the freguess-raising regime is
regulated by Law No. 8/93 of March 5, with the wording
conferred by the Law No. 51-A/93 of July 9, remain in the
normative of 1982 the requirements for the assignment and the
determination of the category of the stands.
From the above, it is easily ascertained that the settlement of the
Madam Aparecida brings together all the requirements contained in Article 12.
of Law No. 11/82 of June 2.
Terms in which it is concluded:
The village of Lady Aparecida brings together all the requirements
legally required for it to be raised to the category of Vila.
Thus, the Deputies of the Parliamentary Group of the Party
Socialist, undersigned, present, under the provisions of the
article 2 of Law No 11/82 of June 2 and of the provisions
applicable constitutional and regimental, the following draft law:
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Single article
The hamlet of the Lady Aparecida, in the county of Lousada,
is high the category of Vila.
Palace of Saint Benedict, April 30, 2008.
The Deputies