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Sobrado (Valongo)
Sobrado may refer to: * Sobrado (architecture), a Portuguese colonial house style Places

Brazil: * Sobrado, Paraíba, municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region Spain: * Sobrado, Galicia, municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia ** Sobrado Abbey, more commonly known as Sobrado dos Monxes or Santa María de Sobrado, located in Sobrado, Galicia * Sobrado, León, municipality in the province of León, Castile and León * Sobrado (Tineo), a civil parish in Tineo, Asturias Portugal: * Sobrado (Castelo de Paiva) * Sobrado (Valongo) * Sobradelo da Goma {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Sobrado (architecture)
A sobrado is a type of house style building from the Portuguese colonial era, typical in Brazil and other former Portuguese colonies. It is a form equivalent to the Anglo-American townhouse, particularly the creole townhouse in Louisiana. Featuring typically two floors with a balcony, the sobrados were the residences of the urban notable people, notably in the former capital of Brazil, Salvador. They are also found in Cape Verde, particularly in São Filipe on the Fogo island, and in Angola, in Luanda. A sobrado typically consists of two or more floors and a relatively large built area. During the colonial period in Brazil these houses served as residences for slave owners in cities, marking a sluggish beginning for urbanization in Brazil. In the previous period, an antagonism existed between the casa-grandes and the slave quarters, where the houseowners were contrasted with the housekeepers who belonged to the poorer strata of society. The expression arose naturally from ...
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Sobrado, Paraíba
Sobrado, Paraíba is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraíba This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraíba (PB), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Paraíba is divided into 223 municipalities, which are grouped into 23 microregions, which are grouped into 4 mesoregions. See ... References Municipalities in Paraíba {{Paraíba-geo-stub ...
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Sobrado, Galicia
Sobrado is a municipality in the Spanish province of A Coruña located in the northwest of Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia. It has a population of 2,087 (Spanish 2011 Census) and an area of 121 km². Sobrado is well known because of Sobrado Abbey, a Trappist monastery. The town is known by the name Sobrado dos Monxes in Galician or Sobrado de los Monjes in Spanish but the official name is just Sobrado. Geography Demographics Climate and vegetation The town of Sobrado, in its climatic characteristics (temperatures, precipitation, humidity, hours of direct sunlight) has a climate characteristic of the European Atlantic that means wet and cool, with heavy rainfall due to greater latitude within the autonomous region and the dorsal Galician screen acting for the Atlantic storms that discharge heavy rains on this side, approaching the annual average 1,400 mm. Temperatures are a little more extreme, the result of the recession of the coastline and i ...
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Sobrado Abbey
Sobrado Abbey, ( es, Monasterio de Santa María de Sobrado de los Monjes or gl, Mosteiro de Santa María de Sobrado dos Monxes) is a Cistercian monastery in the province of La Coruña, Galicia, Spain. It is situated in the municipality of Sobrado, about 9 km east of Corredoiras and about 46 km southeast of Betanzos, at an altitude of 540 m above sea level. History The abbey was founded in 952 by Count Hermenegildo Alóitez and his wife Paterna. In 958, the founders transferred the county of Présaras to the monastery and, in that same year, Hermenegildo retired there where he lived as a monk the rest of his life and where he was buried. The abbey was inherited by his descendants and nearly two centuries later, in January 1142, the brothers Fernando and Bermudo Pérez, two of the most distinguished members of the House of Traba, handed it over to the Cistercian monks from Clairvaux. The abbey flourished during the 12th and 13th centuries and was able to undertake ...
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Sobrado, León
Sobrado is a municipality in the province of León, Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ..., Spain. Municipalities in the Province of León {{León-geo-stub ...
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Sobrado (Tineo)
Sobrado may refer to: * Sobrado (architecture), a Portuguese colonial house style Places Brazil: * Sobrado, Paraíba, municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region Spain: * Sobrado, Galicia, municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia ** Sobrado Abbey, more commonly known as Sobrado dos Monxes or Santa María de Sobrado, located in Sobrado, Galicia * Sobrado, León, municipality in the province of León, Castile and León * Sobrado (Tineo), a civil parish in Tineo, Asturias Portugal: * Sobrado (Castelo de Paiva) * Sobrado (Valongo) * Sobradelo da Goma Sobradelo da Goma is a Portuguese Freguesia in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso Póvoa de Lanhoso (, ) is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the district of Braga (district), Braga, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,8 ...
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Sobrado (Castelo De Paiva)
Sobrado may refer to: * Sobrado (architecture), a Portuguese colonial house style Places Brazil: * Sobrado, Paraíba, municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region Spain: * Sobrado, Galicia, municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia ** Sobrado Abbey, more commonly known as Sobrado dos Monxes or Santa María de Sobrado, located in Sobrado, Galicia * Sobrado, León, municipality in the province of León, Castile and León * Sobrado (Tineo), a civil parish in Tineo, Asturias Portugal: * Sobrado (Castelo de Paiva) * Sobrado (Valongo) * Sobradelo da Goma Sobradelo da Goma is a Portuguese Freguesia in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso Póvoa de Lanhoso (, ) is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the district of Braga (district), Braga, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,8 ...
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Sobrado (Valongo)
Sobrado may refer to: * Sobrado (architecture), a Portuguese colonial house style Places

Brazil: * Sobrado, Paraíba, municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region Spain: * Sobrado, Galicia, municipality in the province of A Coruña, Galicia ** Sobrado Abbey, more commonly known as Sobrado dos Monxes or Santa María de Sobrado, located in Sobrado, Galicia * Sobrado, León, municipality in the province of León, Castile and León * Sobrado (Tineo), a civil parish in Tineo, Asturias Portugal: * Sobrado (Castelo de Paiva) * Sobrado (Valongo) * Sobradelo da Goma {{disambiguation, geo ...
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