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Elevation Of The Village Of São Pedro Do Sul, In The Municipality Of São Pedro Do Sul, District Of Viseu, To The Category Of City

Original Language Title: Elevação da vila de São Pedro do Sul, no município de São Pedro do Sul, distrito de Viseu, à categoria de cidade

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DRAFT LAW NO. 696 /X/4.

ELEVATION OF THE VILLAGE OF S. PEDRO DO SUL À

CATEGORY OF CITY

1. GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION AND GENERAL CHARACTERIZATION

The Concelho of S. Pedro do Sul lies at the Northern limit of the Centre Region, in the Region of

Beira Alta and in the Viseu district, clashing with the concelhos of Arouca, Castro

Daire, Vouzela, Oliveira de Frades, Viseu and Vale of Cambra.

Integrates in conjunction with the concelhos de Oliveira de Frades and Vouzela, the former Region

of Lafões, natural territory of great beauty in the middle trolleth of the Vouga valley,

delimited to the north by the massive of the Gralheira and to the south by the Serra do Caramulo.

The seat of the concelho of S. Pedro do Sul is crossed by the Vouga and South rivers, as well as

by national roads n. ºs 16 and 227 and by Regional Road No. 228, which despite the

proximity of the motorways A25 and A24, continue to constitute important routes of

transit, just as it happened a few centuries ago.

It is a Concelho with the area of 348 Km2 and consists of 19 freguesias and a

population of more than 19 thousand inhabitants.

From among all these freguesies stand out two, S. Pedro do Sul and Várzea, who

concentrate more than eight thousand inhabitants on the effect of their centrality and the strong

urban and demographic expansion of the Terms of S. Pedro do Sul.

2. HISTORY

The vetusta "village" of "Sancti Petri of the Sur" already appears in documents from the séc XI.

A document from 1030, already mentions aexistence in the current variate concelho

agriculture, including "orchards, figs, castanhais, nogals", etc., more properly

near the present village.

According to the Great Portuguese Encyclopedia and Brasileira, " the story of this

concelho offers, from par with very curious facts, some of the most important

subsidies for the study of our medieval society-considered all classes

of the population, but very especially the people and the nobility ". " In the touching on this one, enough

that were from here originating the strains (and current nicknames) "of Pinho", "de Amaral",

"from Vaions or Baions" "from Sobral" and, well probably the "of Figueiredo". On the high and

vast serrania that occupies the entire northern part of the present concelho, villainous people

came to reach culmination of opulence that ran parlours with those of the

nobility ".

In 1085, a presbyter Trutesindo donates to the Sé de Coimbra to his church (surely

monastic) "that vocatur Sancti Petri in land Alahuni" (Lafões). (Highlight that the

word "sur" was of Arab origin, giving "south" in Portuguese. In castelhano

(Spanish), the Arabic vocacula stayed forever.)

In another donation to the same Sé, it is said of the monastery of S. Pedro do Sul , " which est

A secus of courses rivulos Sur and Vauga " , precisely the position of the current

village, kissed at its feet by the two rivers (Vouga and South). The existence of this monastery was

ephemeral, for the Inquiries of 1258 in it no longer spoke.

2.1. From the Councelho of Lafões to the Concelho of S. Pedro doSul

In 1436, D. Duarte institutes the concelain of Lafões, one of the largest in the Country,

comprised of 44 freguesies and 13 couts. In the middle of that immense territory was

jammed the concelain of the Banho (Terms of S. Pedro do Sul), whose foral had been

granted by D. Afonso Henriques in 1152, nearly three centuries earlier.

Please note that the region (Alahuin, from Arabic) already long before the foundation of the

nationality, constituted a territorial circumscription, then called "land".

With the great review and administrative reorganization of the Country, taken to effect by

Mouzinho da Silveira from 1832, the huge Lafões ' concelain is divided into three

concelhos --. S. Pedro do Sul, Vouzela and Oliveira de Frades-being the minuscule and

old fashioned Banho concelain integrated in S. Pedro do Sul. And, thus, in 1836,

these new concelhos were beginning to run their destinations.

2.2. From ancient times to modernity

Almost two centuries past about its foundation as a county, S. Pedro do Sul is,

today one of the most village in the Viseu district. For its stunning beauty and for the

quality of its thermal waters, attracts itself, annually, the largest number of aquicians of

all the Country and very many domestic and foreign tourists.

" What a refrigerio! ... What a great amenity! ... What a branding! ... ", wrote

Ramalho Ortigão, dazzled with the landscape of the Villa and the Terms. " Sintra of the

Verge " has called him someone (it is said that Camilo White Castle that by way passed, from

visit to the White Castle, your family members of Viseu).

The urban fabric of the seat of the county, for years it will expand into the inside

of the limits of the four freighters boreal of the Village: Várzea, Baiões, Bordonhos and S.

Felix.

In what concerne to the axis S. Pedro do Sul-Várzea, the respective spots

urban already intersect long ago, continuing to develop at a remarkable pace.

With this considerable and visible expansion, it can assert itself, without any

doubt, that within not too long, S. Pedro do Sul will have an urban stain of

area superior to some major cities.

2.3. Termas of S. Peter of the South

The present Terms of S. Pedro do Sul were called by the Romans

"Balneum", here building, there are more than two thousand years, a thermal seaside resort, whose

ruins there are currently remaining.

In these two millennia, it was successively altering the denomination. First

went from "Balneum" to Banho, then to Caldas de Lafões, subsequently, in

1895, for Terms of Queen D. Amélia and, finally, for Terms of S. Pedro do Sul,

already with the advent of the Republic.

As ago it was referred to, in 1152, D. Afonso Henriques grants to the foral site

realengo, instituting the county of the Banho, elevating it later, the " Couto do

Kingdom "and the Couto of Honour". There was this small, old-fashioned concelain from subsist

until the dismantling of the extensive Lafões concelho in 1834, date from which

became integrated in the concelain of S. Pedro do Sul.

In 1169, here shifted the Founding King to treat himself to a leg

fracturate of the Battle of Badajós, accompanied by his son Sancho and his two daughters.

D. Manuel I ali came also in search of lenitivo for his padections

herptics, having granted him new and more important foral in 1515.

At the time, already the thermal site had the name of Caldas de Lafões, seat of the small

concelain of the Banho.

Finally, the last queen of Portugal, D. Amélia of Orleans and Braganza, here came

also treated for problems of the throat, in 1894. And so well it felt that it came back

in 1895, 1896 and 1898, In the second year of its coming, the Chamber of then gave the name to the

site of Terms of Queen D. Amélia, also attributing its name to the Balneary that

still today stands.

In 1987, a second Balneary was inaugurated, the largest on the Peninsula,

recently remodeled and enlarged, to which it was assigned the name of " Balneário D.

Afonso Henriques ", fair tribute to the monarch who, in the alvor of nationality,

granted such great honor to the place and to the "miraculous waters" that in it sprout.

This thermal office, running all year round, is wanted for about a third

of the national aquistas. Also many tourists demand this rincon in search of

rest for the body and for the spirit.

The number of aquicians who throughout the year attend the Terms of S. Pedro do

South and there remain for periods longer than 15 days, it rises to about 25,000,

occurring that in the summer months will be more than 45,000 people who by there go through and the

its majority there remain.

The environmental qualification and the quality of the treatments provided by the

thermal water from the Terms of S. Pedro do Sul, have been projecting these therms for a

unequivocal leadership of the Iberian Peninsula Termalism since the 80.

This reality has been accompanied by strong urban sprawi and

installation of different equipment capable of responding to the strong demand of this

thermal resort, constituting even new abode for many of the frequenters

of these Terms.

Of emphasising that the growth and affirmation of the Terms of S. Pedro do Sul to the

long centuries, it has constituted one of the main drivers of demand growth

touristy in the region.

3. CULTURAL LIFE

In the village of S. Pedro do Sul, was born the Poet António Corrêa de Oliveira , in

1879.

Your poems " passed down from such softness and lirism, they may only have been

written by an unusual chronicle poet and, at the same time approachable, coming from the people,

molded in the feel of the people " such as the characterizing Teixeira de Pascoais.

In 1908, he was elected a partner of the Academy of Sciences, from whose praise he took charge

Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, another great poet, author of the lyrics of "The Portuguese" that

would come to be our National Hino, after the deployment of the Republic. The following year,

identical honor had from the Brasileira de Letras Academy, going to occupy the vacant chair that

out of Emílio Zola.

This Poet has in this his land, since 1955, an expressive bustle, erected by

public underwriting of its countrymen.

Other cultural manifestations have proliferated in this concelho, as is

of the plays promoted by the People's Theatre Group "The Cénico", which has

achieved significant successes, as well as from the Manhouce Group of Cantars and its

soloist Isabel Silvestre, who has taken to the seven corners of the world the beauty of the musica

Traditional Portuguese, namely the coming from S. Pedro do Sul.

3.1. Cine Theatre

On the principle of the second decade of the séc. XX, is built on the river Vouga, together

Village, a hydroelectric plant .

In the wake of this important improvement for the season three entrepreneurs

locals take the initiative to build a hall of spectacles. Thus, in 1926, it is

inaugurated a house of classical style spectacles, named after Cine-Theater S.

Pedro.

Acquired by the Edility in the 90, it benefitted from deep works of

recovery and, today, in it takes place various events of cultural, social and

recreational.

Land with ancient cultural habits, is founded in 1969, the theatre group The

Cénico , on the initiative of lawyer Jaime Gralheiro, known nationally as

theatrologist and encroacher. This theatrical grouping has turned into a short time, in a

vehicle of culture and animation in the Region, coming to conquer a striking place in the

Portuguese theatrical panorama despite, unfortunately, having suspended its activity in

2007.

The Band Philharmonic Harmony , founded in 1865, remains firmly in the senda

of its cultural and entertainment mission.

One other Philharmonic Band exists in the Pinho's freguesia.

In some concelain freguesters, there are cultural and recreational associations,

to which are associated folkloric ranches and groups of traditional canners. Of these

last, highlight themselves by their national projection o Alafum Group and the Group of

Canners of Manhouce, in which it stands out the melodious voice of Isabel Silvestre.

3.2. Local newspapers

In S. Pedro do Sul are edited presently two papers, Gazette of the Beira and

Newspaper of Lafões . However, from more than a century to this part, others have published themselves

in this concelho:

The Lafonense -weekly surged in January 1891.

The Comarch -Published in 1898.

The Vouga -"Folha agricultural, commercial, literary and newsworthy", from 1899 a to 1912.

The Progress -weekly " progressive that was published on Sundays, in

1903.

Echoes of the Vouga -weekly "Republican" who published from 1913 a to 1915.

Uproar -Published shortly after the previous one.

The Defense -"Independent Quinzenario" published from 1921 a to 1926.

Mail from S. Pedro do Sul -Started its publication in 1922.

People of the Beira -"regionalist Trimensary" (1ª series), with publication in 1936

and 1937. In 1939, it appeared in 2ª series, surviving up to 1943.

Tribune of Lafões -Quinzenario regionalist ", Aseem in January 1953,

suspending publication in 1997.

News from Lafões -Founded in 2004 as fortnighteenth, passed after the

weekly. It continues to be edited.

3.3. Local Radio

Founded in 1985, by a group of young people exists in S. Pedro do Sul one of the

more dynamic local radios from the Viseu District, Radio Lafões. After some

difficulties and its legalization in 1988, turned into a cooperative, being today

one of the most overheard local broadcasters in the region.

3.4. Crafts

In the 60 of the last century, together with some craftsmen and craftsmen,

coexisted variadic craftsmen of products and artefacts of demanding and

patient labor manual as such lighters, shoemakers, tailors, albardeiros, ferrador,

millers, dockies, singles that would rent the granite, civilian sawtoilets that made of the

iron bar beautiful twists and arabesque, which in many cases took their

saberes for cities such as Lisbon, Porto and Rio de Janeiro.

Of this intense activity there are still some nuclei of craftsmen, who continue

to develop its activity in areas such as weaving, the recovery of mills and

the gifter, on the initiative of associations scattered by the county.

4. MONUMENTAL HERITAGE

S. Pedro do Sul has a wealth of monumental heritage of which they excelled

the following elements:

Roman resort of the Terms- In the Terms of S. Pedro do Sul there are the

ruins of the "Balneum" Romano das Termas, where D. Afonso Henriques came to treat.

It has been classified as a national monument since 1938. Is in development a

project to recover these ruins, in a partnership with the IGESPAR, attentive to

importance of this monument that points out " the oldest vestige of Chronic Thermal

Portuguese ".

Palace of the Marquis of Reriz -Imponent in its architectural mass

setecentist, attracts the looks of all how many they visit or pass through S. Pedro do Sul.

Here it became installed Queen D. Amélia, when it came to treatments on the Terms.

Palme-Moniz Palmet -Nice palmet with large front garden, which if

highlights from its 10 eight-style balcony windows.

Palacete of the Condes da Lapa -Setecentist building with ample inner courtyard and

11 balcony windows on the main facade.

Lacerda's Correia Correia's Palmet Antiquated senhorial building, with crest

which must be unique in the Country: over the weapons of the original coat of arms, were placed, in the

séc. XIX, two lions rampans of inca origin or azteca.

Balneary Queen D. Amélia -Located in the Terms, was inaugurated in 1888

and subsequently enlarged. In addition to its beautiful façade, it has in its interior a nucleus

museological where old equipment of thermal treatments can be enjoyed.

Building of the Paths of the Concelho -The magnification, at the end of 20, principles of

30 of the twentieth century, of the old Chamber building, installed in the convent of the friars,

resulted in a magnificent and grandiose "Domus Municipalis", of massive and well-worked

granite balcony stands out from the facade where the arms of the concelho emphasize

also "surrendered" in granite by hands of a canker artist. Dominates a wide wide

frontrunner ("Largo of the House") and the aprazorous Municipal Garden.

INATEL Center of Fteries -This former Hotel Palace of the Terms is a

large and majestic romantic style building that impresses for its exterior beauty

and interior.

Convent Franciscan of S. Joseph -It is an ancient convent, converted into

Pains of the Concelho (the part adjacent to the Church) is the heritage symbol of this Municipality

which has existed since 1834. Your Church (known since always as a Church of the Convent)

has a majestic façade, implanted at the top of a large granite staircase.

In its interior, among other images stands out, by its beauty and dimension, the

of Nth. Lady of the Conception, at the altar-mor, the Padroeira da Vila who, on December 8,

goes out on the street, in concorrida procession.

Chapel of St. António -Property of local Mercy and implanted in

privileged location of the Villa, together with the Reriz Palace, has an attractive façade of rich

bearded Portuguese baroque style.

Chapel of S. Sebastião -Close to the Convent, it is a temple of architecture

simple, but very old. Until recently, there had been its headquarters the Brotherhood of S.

Sebastiao.

Chapel of S. Martin -Small but old-fashioned chapel of the Terms that has

as orago the aforementioned Saint. On November 11, great festivity, coming out

the image to the street, in procession. On the eve, at night, there is always the traditional magusto,

accompanied by the new wine.

5. FAIRS, PARTIES AND ROMICES

Fairs of the Village :

Fair Old (monthly)-at 2ª fair between days 16 and 22 of each month.

Fair New-(monthly)-In the first 5ª fair of every month.

Fair in South, on Sundays.

Party and Romarias:

Annual holidays of the Village-Commemorative of the day of S. Peter, Municipal Holiday.

N. Srth. From the Conception, in the Villa

N. Srl of Health, in the Terms

N. Srth of the Livament, in Negrelos

N. Srth of Nazareth, in Drizes.

Saint António, in the Villa

6. INFRASTRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT

S. Pedro do Sul has the following equipment in the area covering the seat of the

Concelho and freguesia of S. Pedro do Sul, as well as in the freguesia of Várzea, where if

locate the Terms of S. Pedro do Sul:

Centre of Health, with Basic Urgency Service;

The Terms of S. Pedro do Sul, composed of two thermal establishments, which for

in addition to providing you with terse treatments have basic health care and support

doctor with 12 physicians and physical and rehabilitation medicine.

Private medical clinics: 3

Laboratories of private analyses: 3

Pharmacies: 4

Associations of Social Solidarity: Santa Casa da Misericórdia, with Home and Centre of

Day

Fire corporations: 2

House of spectacles: the Cine Theater S. Peter

There are still several cultural insole equipments run by Associations

as, for example, the Cultural Association of Drizes, the United Association of the Station,

the Cultural and Recreational Association of Negrelos, the Cultural and Sports Association of

Travanca, the Cultural and Recreational Association of Arcozelo, the St. Peter's Club of the

South, the Group of Bombs and Tarolas de Negrelos, the Southern St. Peter's Group of Cordas

-Tocata, the Popular Theatre Group-Cénico, the Folkloric Ranch the Lavrirs of

Negrelos, the Philharmonic Musical Society Harmony of S. Pedro do Sul, the Demola-

motorised sports, the Sports Union Sampedrense, the Education Association

Physics and Sport of Saint Peter of the South, the Association of Social Solidarity of Lafões,

the Lafões's Club of Hunting and Fisheries, the Academic Footlafan Association, the Association

Cultural and Social Recreation of the Bridge Neighborhood and the Sport Club of Drizes:

Libraries: the Municipal Library, the Library based in the Terms of S. Pedro do

South, on the premises of the Resort Queen Dona Amélia, the Libraries of the Basic School

Integrated 2/3 and the Secondary School of S. Pedro do Sul;

Two Internet Spaces

6.1. Hoteleiras facilities

Hotel facilities, which offer more than two thousand beds, constituting, by this, the

largest hotel park in the Viseu district:

A 4-star Hotel starring 3-star Hotels;

Four Hotels of 2 stars;

Two Residential Ones;

Six Pensions;

Seven units of Tourism in rural space;

Four units of Housing Tourism;

Twenty Restaurants;

Seven Pastries;

Seventeen Cafés;

Four Bares;

A Discoteca;

Two medium-size commercial surfaces.

6.2. Educational establishments

Integrated Basic School 2/3

S. Pedro Secondary School of the South;

Three Institutions of primary education;

Pre-primary and nursery education institutions: Three

Private educational establishments: A Children's Garden

6.3. Sport

Municipal Sports Centre;

Three Gimnosporting Pavilion;

Three Polidsports;

Two Fields of games;

Two Municipal Swimming Pools.

6.4. Other Equipment and Services

Two Industrial Parks;

A Security and Civil Protection service integrated into the City Hall;

Post of GNR

Two fire barracks;

Post office, telegraphs and telephones;

Postal Distribution Center;

Twelve Telephone public posts;

Five Bank Branches;

Two Veterinary Clinics;

Distribution of Finance and Treasury of Public Finance

Public transport secured by the Guedes trucking company.

There are in this territorial space 8 parks and public gardens and 4 river beaches

Judicial Court

Notary Private

Conservatory of the Civil, Commercial and Predial Register

Regional Social Security Service

Post of Tourism

Thermal Museum

Ecopist resulting from the transformation of the former line of the iron path of the Valley of the

Vouga between S. Pedro do Sul and Viseu.

7. DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION

The area corresponding to the ensemble of the freguesias of S. Pedro do Sul and Várzea has a

total of 5572 inhabitants, according to the 2001 census.

The two freguesies are interlinked and represent a universe of 4600 voters from

deal with the map with the number of voters enrolled in the electoral census

published in the Journal of the Republic, II Series, No 43, of March 3, 2009.

Attending to which the Villa of S. Pedro do Sul develops presently in the area of

freguesias of S. Pedro do Sul and Várzea, these two freguesias meet the conditions

provided for in Law No. 11/82 to be elevated to the category of Town, morally face to the

provisions of Article 14º, by which the Deputies of the Social Democratic Party, below

signed, present, under the applicable legal and regimental provisions, the

next Draft Law:

SINGLE ARTICLE

It is created the city of S. Pedro do Sul, which covers the area corresponding to the present

freguesias of S. Pedro do Sul and of Várzea.

Palace of S. Bento, March 19, 2009

The Deputies of the PSD

José Cesario Helena Oliveira

José Luís Arnaut António Almeida Henriques

Carlos Miranda