Montemor-o-Novo

Municipality in Alentejo, Portugal

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Coat of arms

Coordinates: 38°39′N 8°13′W / 38.650°N 8.217°W / 38.650; -8.217Country

PortugalRegionAlentejoIntermunic. comm.Alentejo CentralDistrictÉvoraParishes7Government

• PresidentOlímpio Manuel Vidigal Galvão (PS)Area

• Total1,232.97 km² (476.05 sq mi)Population

(2011)

• Total17,437 • Density14/km² (37/sq mi)Time zoneUTC±00:00 (WET) • Summer (DST)UTC+01:00 (WEST)Local holidaySaint John of God
March 8Websitewww.cm-montemornovo.pt

Montemor-o-Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [mõtɨˈmɔɾ u ˈnovu] ^ⓘ) is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 17,437,^[1] in an area of 1232.97 km².^[2] The city itself had a population of 8,928 in 2001.^[3]

The present mayor is Olímpio Manuel Vidigal Galvão, elected in 2021 by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is March 8, after Saint John of God,^[4] a 16th-century saint, who was born in Montemor-o-Novo.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):^[5]

Cabrela
Ciborro
Cortiçadas de Lavre e Lavre
Foros de Vale de Figueira
Nossa Senhora da Vila, Nossa Senhora do Bispo e Silveiras
Santiago do Escoural
São Cristóvão

Gallery

The city castle.
Town square.
The local landscape.

Notable people

Vasco Gil Sodré (c.1450 — c.1500) a Portuguese navigator, early settler of the Azores island of Graciosa
Saint John of God (1495–1550) a canonized Portuguese soldier turned health-care worker in Spain, whose followers later formed the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God.^[4]
Fernando Martins Mascarenhas (c.1548 – 1628) a scholar, theologian, and church leader
Maria Clara Correia Alves (1869–1948) a Portuguese feminist, co-founder of the National Council of Portuguese Women
Kalidás Barreto (1932–2020), trade unionist.^[6]
Luís Capoulas Santos (born 1951) a Portuguese politician and Govt. Minister
Ai Weiwei (born 1957), Chinese contemporary artist and activist^[7]

References

^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
^ UMA POPULAÇÃO QUE SE URBANIZA, Uma avaliação recente - Cidades, 2004 Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal)
^ ^a ^b "St. John of God" . Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 08. 1910.
^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 77-78" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 July 2014.
^ "Adeodato Barreto, a família e os amigos" (PDF). Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra. p. 2. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
^ Newell-Hanson, Alice (12 April 2021). "Furry Friends: The Joy Ai Weiwei Gets From His Cats". T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Retrieved 5 July 2021.