Arruda dos Vinhos is a Portuguese town in the district of Lisbon, with about 5800 inhabitants.It is home to a small municipality with 77.71 km ² and 11,795 inhabitants (2006), divided into four parishes (Arranhó, Arruda dos Vinhos, Cardosas of Santiago and Old). The city is limited to the northern city of Swindon, southeast of Vila Franca de Xira, south of Loures, Mafra by the west and northwest by Sobral.
A document dated 1172 by a donation from the town of the Order of Santiago Alvarez, warrant plowing by Dom Afonso Henriques, seems to be the oldest official document found so far regarding the "foundation" of the legal district.
Under the new Charters of Reading, Manuel gave in 1517, the village Foral de Arruda.
Short Historical Review Situated in a fertile valley and mild, the ancient town of Arruda dos Vinhos dazzles, not only for its rich history but also by the well known hospitality of its people. You can scroll through the narrow streets of historic Arruda and feel the mystery and magic of medieval Portuguese. Here and there, the place names of streets, yards and places, suggests the existence of former royal palaces. The first monarch, we are left with the testimony of a document giving the village the Religious and Military Order of Santiago in 1172, proving, indeed, the importance and notoriety that the town already owned at the time. It was this Order which was a real engine of rural development in the region to make up a convent on the site Vilar, intended to accommodate the wives of the Knights who journeyed to the South, during the anniversary of the Reconquista. They were engaged in farming, by leasing land, promoting thus the dynamics of agriculture, especially the cultivation of the vine, given the exceptional features of this area for this type of activity.
Not only Arruda dos Vinhos since ancient times was an important center of wine production, but also because these places have been coming to see traces of an important ancient trading route of this product, widely appreciated, within and beyond the sea. This rich heritage, there is still today the development and expansion of activity in wine in a large part of the territory of the municipality.
For all this, even today, in villages and farms that surround couples and complete the harmony of the valleys, to work hard the fields are cultivated fertile floodplains, and prepare for the famous vineyards and bountiful harvests of autumn so well that typify the land and fill color. This long ritual labor and wisdom resulting annually in November, the Feast of Vine and Wine.
Not only Arruda dos Vinhos since ancient times was an important center of wine production, but also because these places have been coming to see traces of an important ancient trading route of this product, widely appreciated, within and beyond the sea. This rich heritage, there is still today the development and expansion of activity in wine in a large part of the territory of the municipality.
For all this, even today, in villages and farms that surround couples and complete the harmony of the valleys, to work hard the fields are cultivated fertile floodplains, and prepare for the famous vineyards and bountiful harvests of autumn so well that typify the land and fill color. This long ritual labor and wisdom resulting annually in November, the Feast of Vine and Wine.
What to Visit In the Town of Arranhó:
Church of St. Lawrence
Shrine of Our Lady of Help
In the Town of Arruda dos Vinhos:
Aqueduct
Chapel of Our Lady of Mount
Chapel of St. Lazarus
Fountain
Church of Mercy Hospital and
Church
Memorial to fighters of the Great War
Windmill of Corredoura
Bullring José Marques Simões
Clock Tower
In the Town of Cardosas:
Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Viewpoint of Cardosas
Windmill
In the Parish of St. James of the Old:
Chapel of Carvalhas
Church
Windmill couple of the Lark
Where to sleep:
Quinta de Santa Maria
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