Santo Tirso () is a city and municipality located in the north of Porto Metropolitan Area, 25 km from central

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropo ...

, Portugal. In the region, the Ave Valley, there is a large center of textile industry. The population in 2011 was 71,530, in an area of 136.60 km². Another important center in the municipality is

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. The Santo Tirso Monastery built in 978 is a point of interest.

History

The History of Santo Tirso is tied to its benedictine monastery. The town grew around it and, from 978 until 1834, it was a "couto" – a neutral area that belonged to the clergy. Known initially as Santo Tirso de Riba de Ave, this city has been the capital of a municipality at least since 1833. Its composition changed throughout the years, especially in 1998, when the nearby city of Trofa created its own municipality, taking some of Santo Tirso's towns with it. Towards the middle of the 19th century, Santo Tirso spearheaded the industrialization of the Ave Valley. One of the first textile factories in the region, the Fábrica de Fiação e Tecidos do Rio Vizela, opened in Vila das Aves, part of its municipality, in 1845. This factory would become the largest of its kind in Portugal, with an area of about nine square kilometres and employing, at one point, over 3.000 people.

Geography

The highest point in the municipality is in the Alto de S. Jorge, in the parish of Refojos, with 527 meters of altitude. The municipality's current perimeter is .

Climate

Santo Tirso has a

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with warm to hot summers and mild, very wet winters.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 14 civil parishes (''

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''): * Agrela * Água Longa * Areias, Sequeiró, Lama e Palmeira *

Carreira e Refojos de Riba de Ave Carreira e Refojos de Riba de Ave is a civil parish in the municipality of Santo Tirso, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Carreira and Refojos de Riba de Ave. The population in 2011 was 2,072,< ...

* Lamelas e Guimarei * Monte Córdova * Rebordões * Reguenga * Roriz * Santo Tirso, Couto (Santa Cristina e São Miguel) e Burgães *

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* Vila Nova do Campo * Vilarinho

Sports

Santo Tirso is home of the historic football club Futebol Clube Tirsense and C.D. Aves.

Notable people

* Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva (1923–2013) a Prelate of the Catholic Church & bishop of the Diocese of Lichinga *

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(born 1988) a Portuguese politician

Sport

* Alberto Festa (born 1939) a retired footballer with 143 club caps and 19 for

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(born 1942) a former cyclist, competed at the

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* Quim Machado (born 1966) a former footballer with 320 club caps a current manager. * Gaspar Azevedo (born 1975) known as ''Gaspar'', a retired footballer with 429 club caps * Ricardo Rocha (born 1978) a retired footballer with 362 club caps and 6 for

* Pedro Moutinho (born 1979) a retired footballer with 343 club caps *

Orlando Neto Rui Orlando Ribeiro Santos Neto (born 24 October 1979), known as Orlando, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a central defender. He appeared in at least 100 matches in each of the three major levels of Portuguese football in a 19-ye ...

(born 1979), known as ''Orlando'', a former footballer with 386 club caps *

Rui Pedro Silva Rui Pedro Silva (born 6 May 1981 in Santo Tirso) is a Portuguese track and field athlete specialized in long distance and cross country running. With Benfica, he won the Portuguese Road Men's Championship on 12 January 2014, repeating the ac ...

(born 1981) a track and field, long distance and cross country athlete, competed at the

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& 2012 Summer Olympics *

Sara Moreira Sara Isabel Fonseca Moreira (; born 17 October 1985) is a Portuguese runner who competes in cross country, road running and in middle-distance and long-distance track events. She represents Sporting CP at club level. After ...

(born 1985) a cross country, road, middle & long distance track runner.

References

External links

Santo Tirso City Fporum

F.C. Tirsense

On-line Journal Santo Tirso.eu

Online Santo Tirso Portal
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