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Carregal do Sal (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐʁɨˈɣal du ˈsal] (listen)) is a municipality in Viseu District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,835,[1] in an area of 116.89 km².[2]

Carregal do Sal
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 40°26′N 8°00′W
Country	Portugal
Region	Centro
Intermunic. comm.	Viseu Dão Lafões
District	Viseu
Parishes	5
Government
• President	Rogério Abrantes (PS)
Area
• Total	116.89 km2 (45.13 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	9,835
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Local holiday	2nd Monday after the 3rd Sunday of July
Website	http://www.carregal-digital.pt

The present mayor is Atílio dos Santos Nunes, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is the second Monday after the third Sunday of July.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (freguesias):[3]

• Beijós
• Cabanas de Viriato
• Currelos, Papízios e Sobral
• Oliveira do Conde
• Parada

History

The municipality was created in 1836, by merging the now extinct Currelos and Oliveira do Conde municipalities. There was a place in Currelos called Carregal. Later it became known as “do Sal” (English: of salt) after the big salt evaporation ponds constructed there by order of Francisco Lucas de Melo Pais do Amaral (7 May 1752 – 6 April 1819), of Casa de Santar (Melo Pais do Amaral, and after Count of Santar).

Taking advantage of the location by the road, by then the major land connection between Viseu and Coimbra districts, Francisco Lucas de Melo Pais do Amaral therefore ordered the building of huge salt evaporation ponds in some lands he had inherited, which could supply the entire region. This business was kept in the hands of its descendants (Soares de Albergaria Pais e Melo) over almost 200 years, and consisted of collecting the salt from Figueira da Foz, transporting it by boat through Mondego and Dão rivers, up to Carregal, then laid in big warehouses, in the place named "Salinas" (English: salt evaporation ponds) in the town border, where Francisco Lucas de Melo Pais do Amaral ordered, moreover, the build of the house named after it, today the Museu Municipal Manuel Soares de Albergaria.

Notable people

• Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885 in Cabanas de Viriato – 1954) a Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, he defied the orders of António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime, was punished, but posthumously redeemed and commemorated
• Ondina Maria Farias Veloso (1956–2019) a singer, known as Dina, sang in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992

References

External links

• Town Hall official website
• Photos from Carregal do Sal

На других языках

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- [en] Carregal do Sal

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[es] Carregal do Sal

Carregal do Sal es una villa portuguesa del distrito de Viseu, região Centro y comunidad intermunicipal de Viseu Dão-Lafões, con cerca de 5600 habitantes.

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[ru] Каррегал-ду-Сал

Каррега́л-ду-Сал (порт. Carregal do Sal; [kɐʁɨ'gaɫ du saɫ ]) — посёлок городского типа в Португалии, центр одноимённого муниципалитета в составе округа Визеу. Находится в составе крупной городской агломерации Большое Визеу. По старому административному делению входил в провинцию Бейра-Алта. Входит в экономико-статистический субрегион Дан-Лафойнш, который входит в Центральный регион. Численность населения — 5,6 тыс. жителей (посёлок), 10,6 тыс. жителей (муниципалитет) на 2006 год. Занимает площадь 113,80 км².

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