Valbom is a city and a former
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in the municipality of
Gondomar, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish
Gondomar (São Cosme), Valbom e Jovim.
It has about 15,000 residents. It was elevated to city status on 9 December 2004. For generations Valbom was a fishing village, due to its location by the river
Douro
The Douro (, , ; es, Duero ; la, Durius) is the highest-flow river of the Iberian Peninsula. It rises near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province, central Spain, meanders south briefly then flows generally west through the north-west part o ...
. Today, local crafts dominate the economy.
It was here, in the house called "Casa Branca", that the
Convention of Gramido was signed on 29 June 1847, ending the civil war of the
Septembrists against the Cartists known as the
Patuleia
The Patuleia, Guerra da Patuleia, or Little Civil War was a civil war in Portugal, so called to distinguish it from the 'great' civil war between Dom Pedro and Dom Miguel that ended in 1834. The Patuleia occurred after the Revolution of Maria ...
.
References
Former parishes of Gondomar, Portugal
Cities in Portugal
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