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DRAFT LAW NO. 180 /X

ELEVATION OF GUIFTS TO THE CATEGORY OF VILLAGE

I-Historical Contribution

The Guifons ' Freguesia is one of the ten that constitute the concelain of

Matosinhos, in the district of Porto, situated on the left bank (south) of the River Leça,

which demarces this of three other freguesies: Custoias, Holy Cross of the Bishop and Leça da

Palm tree. To the south, the freguesia divides its boundaries with the villa and freguesia of the Lady of the

Time and still the freguessness and city seat of the county, Matosinhos. Presents, at this beginning

of the Twenty-First Century, the characteristic rural and urban hybridisation of the northern coastline, but with

growing urbanization, mercy of its proximity to the large centres that are

next-Matosinhos, with whom it shares boundaries, the Port and the Maia, in addition to

all the other freguesies that integrate the concelho confronting, as already said, with

five of them-and of their easy communications, namely main itineraries and

complimentary (the IP4, which will cross it within months, the IC1 that tange, the IC 24

a bit on the side, VILPL that rips it north, together to the important medieval core of

Gatons). À ilharga, important attractant poles: the Stone Airport Rubras, the

EXPONOR and the Port of Leixões, to quote only a few of them.

Historically, Guifons will find records of their own on dates prior to their own

nationality. From the Neolithic, more than 5,000 years ago, there was the presence, in the freguesia,

of megalithic monuments (antas), whose toponymic traces and materials (including

diverse axes in polished stone) arrived until our days. From the later Age

of the Bronze found themselves also traces in one of the most important stations

archaeological of the Great Porto: the Monte Castêlo, on the shore of the River Leça and together

foz. Although the oldest vestiges of this settlement actually dater to the Age of

Bronze, this fortified caster and with a well-protected anchorage, will take on a

great protagonism already in the Iron Age, in the 1º millennium BC and, definitely,

during the Roman rule. Its optimal strategic characteristics and the

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proximity to the sea, will transform the Castro of Guifans (it is thus known by the

historiography) in an important port and commercial interpost of the region. Guifts

becomes, then, at one of the main entrance doors in the region of products that here

aflude a little from the whole Empire and which will subsequently be redistributed throughout

of the Leça basin. In some way it can be stated that the great port vocation of

Leixões is born, more than two thousand years ago, in this caster of Guifons.

Although it is unaware of the original designation of this settlement, some

researchers and archaeologists have been associating, most recently, the caster of Guifons à

township of Tuculum, referred to in the "Suévico Paroquial" in the High Middle Ages (time in

that this caster still found itself occupied).

Incidmore, it is also known that the present territory of the freguesia was

significantly occupied in the Middle Ages, being of this evidence the fact that the famous

Mendes da Maia, fellows of Count D. Henry and of D. Afonso Henriques,

have inherited noble houses in Gatons and Guifons, at the same time as the Parents, the

Mendes and the Sousões, all from the Maia, donated to the Balio monastery " all of your

heritage in the Village of Gatons " (still today a well-identified place) . And the then village of

Guifons (core core of the present freguesia) was in the possession of the founding kings,

having been ceded-with others-by D. Sancho I to his daughter D. Mafalda.

The name-Guifons itself-may be of pre-Roman origin, perhaps Germanic,

although it appears "latinized" in the vocables that there is registration: Quiffonis, Quiffiones and

Quisiones , as well as the already very close to the spoken language, Quiffle.

It is also this time the national monument substantiated on the Bridge of the

Car, important infrastructure inserted in the Path of Santiago , magnificently

kept up to the days of today, in counterpoint with the Bridge of Guifons- bridge

moura, said-also presumably from the same time and about the same Leça River,

but more along to the mouth, this one destroyed in the decade of seventy by a flood.

Later, in the year 1304, Guifons is donated by D. Dinis to the Bishop D. Geraldo

Domingues, integrated into the belongings of the Monastery of S. Salvador de Bouças. Eighty

years later, with D. João I the judged de Bouças is divided in half and offered to the city

of the Port, being at the height composed of Bouces / Matosinhos, Leça da Palmeira, Guifons,

Nevogilde, Aldoar and others. In this act, the judicial space of the present freguesia lies

divided by two judgements: Guifons on the of Bouces and Gatons in the Maia.

In the XV and XVI centuries, by virtue of post-discovery maritime activity,

Guifons assumes paramount economic importance in the region: wood for manufacturing

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of ships extracted in their mats and the land became privileged area of recruitment

of sailors, pilots, ship captains, carpenters of ships and calafates, once

that agriculture and animal husbandry, since long developed, did not show up

sufficient to the livelihood of the families.

It is likely that the following century has not been so generous with Guifons, that

seems to have gone into decline. With effect, in 1775 and by the "Memories Paroics" of the

Marquis of Pombal, it becomes to be known that Guifons has "326 people, 52 fires", " belongs

to the freguesia of Matosinhos, judged from Bouces and comarch of the Maya ". It is characterized

in this report as " small rural freguesia, which cultivates maize grin, wheat, rye and

some wine ". There were also many mills in the Leça River, however the respective

forays impede their use by the population. At the end of this century, the Parish of S.

Martinho de Guifons already counted, according to the respective paproco, 118 fires and 443

inhabitants.

By this time, rural elites are beginning to emerge, in the shadow of the enfiteuse and the

patrimonialization of military functions. That is how, a family of this new elite,

are born in Guifons, at the beginning of the nineteenth Century (1802 and 1801, respectively), two

larger vultures of our History, the brothers José da Silva Passos and Manuel da Silva

Steps (Passos Manuel).

Administratively, S. Martin of Guifons depended up to 1542 percent of the freguthesia of

Bouces, whose trial also integrated and which incorporated the judicial comarch of the

Maia; from there it is incorporated, with Bouces, in the padroade of the University of Coimbra

while Gatons belonged to the Balio, of the Hospitalaries and subsequently of the Order

of Malta. Abolished the judgements in 1835, and extinct the religious orders, Guifons and the

Places of the Lomba and Gatons constitute in 1838 a Parish Junta. With the

Republic, these transform into Juntas of Freguesia and Guifons becomes freguesia of the

cobblings of Matosinhos, what holds up to the days of today.

From its most recent history it deserves to highlight the fact that here we find the

cradle of the illustrious Portuguese José da Silva Passos (the "King of Porto") and his brother

Manuel da Silva Passos (Passos Manuel), two inconsible figures of liberalism from the

Nineteenth century, distinguishing itself both as constitutionalist emits, ministers of the

kingdom, great men of the associativism and, Manuel-Passos Manuel-, Minister of the

Kingdom, Ilustre Parliamentary, the founder of high school liceal in our country.

Closest, it deserves to highlight the figure of Joaquim Pereira dos Santos, carpenter of

agricultural tailings that varished already adult by the Catholic priesthood (the celebrated Father

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Manassa) and distinguished himself for his courageous and bold possession and for his political acumen

and administrative, arriving to preside over the Administrative Commission of the Bouças concelho

at the beginning of the last century.

At the end of the twentieth century, notably from the years ' 60, the freguesia of suffered

huge housing boost, with its demand for part of the large population

coming mainly from the interior of the Douro Litoral and the Minho, which here has been radicalized as

Labor from the port of Leixões and the numerous industries (textiles, preserves,

metallurgy, etc.) fixed from its periphery (Matosinhos, Porto and Maia). It begins, today, the

gain new life of its own, underpinned in the synergies generated by its natural and the

first and second generations of those who, a few decades ago, here have settled in.

II-Monuments and other places of interest

Castro of Guifons (Archaeological Station)

Bridge of the Car

Bust of the

Father Manassa

Busto of José da Silva Passos

Tribute to the Monters

Bridge of the Via-railroad over the Leça River

Matrix Church

Church of the Sagrada Familia (Paus)

Lomba Lazer Park

House where they were born José and Manuel da Silva Passos

Civic Center and headquarters of the Freguesia Board

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III-Collective equipment and facilities (artwork. 12º. Of Law 11/82, of

2/06)

Before composed of several places (Church, Tourals, Lomba, Gatons, Monte Pipos,

Montes Xisto, Agras, Paus, Sarilhos, Squinheiro, Mount Ramallion, Mount of the Earth,

etc.) it is today impossible to determine where one begins and ends up another and vice versa, once

that the urban growth verified in the last half of the Twentieth Century turned the

Freguesia of Guifons in a single continuous population cluster, with the population

of 10000 Habitors and 8156 Electors.

There is the presence of the following collective equipment:

-1 Pharmacy (being in study in the respective body the creation of the second)

(b);

-Spectacle Room, with scene set (Paroquial Hall) and diverse

Cultural insole collectivities (Cultural Center of Guifons, Theatre Group

of Guifons, etc.).

(c) ;

-Coverage of regular daily public transport: Transport Resende (3

careers); Collective Transport Society of Porto-STCP (2 careers);

Metro of Porto (in the Carvalles) and to the ilharga, at the Lady of the Hour . Taxi Square,

(d);

-CTT Post (with the generality of its services)

((e);

-Various commercial establishments

(f);

-Teaching Establishments-2 Pre-priming; 4 Schools E.B. 1; 1 School E.B.

2.3 (José Passos)

(g) ;

-Banking Agency (Finibanco)

(paragraph h).

Others:

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-GNR Post;

-Cultural, recreational and sports collectives;

-Creches and Infantaries and ATL;

-Sedeed parish and religious activity;

-covered and outdoor sports enclosures;

-Sanitation basic sanitation, water network and electrical energy. Partially, gas from

city;

-Gardens, monuments and green spaces;

-Archaeological Station of Mount Castle;

-Car Bridge (Roman bridge, in one of the paths of Santiago);

-Field of Tiro with " Olympic Moat ";

-CP workshop group (EMEF);

-Centre for Control of the Port Metro;

IV-Collectivities and associations

Guifões Sport Club

Gatons Football Club

Guifonense Sports Youth

Monte Xisto Cultural Sports Club

Sport Club Eagles Lombenses

Sports Group Mini-Eagles

Club of Hunting of Matosinhos

Cultural and Social Solidarity Center of Guifons

Social and Development Association of Guifons

Association of Morators of the Paus

Association of Residents of the New Street of the Paus

Group of Young Guifons

Group of Guifan Theater

Regional Ranch of Guifons

Paroquial Ranch of Guifons

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V-CONCLUSIVE

The elevation of the Guifons ' freguesia, in the Matosinhos concelho, rests on reasons

of historical, geographical, demographic, economic and cultural order, but also, in the

fact that its political-administrative and financial viability do not collide with

general or local order interest.

In the face of the exposed, the Socialist Party understands that they are meeting the

de facto and constant requirements in Article 12º conjugated to the article

14º, both from Law No. 11/82 of June 2, so that the settlement of Guifons is

high to the category of Vila.

Terms in which the Members of the Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party below

signed, present under the constitutional and regimental provisions

applicable, the following Draft Law:

Single Article

The hamlet of Guifons, in the county of Matosinhos, district of Porto, is elevated to

category of village.

Assembly of the Republic, October 2005

The Deputies