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Fountain Of São João (Melgaço)
The Fountain of São João ( pt, Fonte de São João) is a fountain located in the civil parish of, municipality of Melgaço, in the northern Portugal. History The fountain dates to 1780, with the payment for the construction funded by Dr. João Pedro de Sá, the ''juiz de fora'' for the town of Melgaço, who lived in the locality of Assadura. He was supported with donations from the nobility of the town of Melgaço. In 1903, the fountain was transferred to the ''Praça da República'' in the municipality. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ''Praça da Repúblic'' was already punctuated with trees; the fountain was located in the area opposite the castle and old Conde de Ferreira Primary School. In May 1970, a ministerial dispatch approved the study into moving the fountain from eastern part of the ''Praça da República'' to the northeast corner of the square. From a document to the director of the Fine Arts School (in 1971), the DGEMN referred to the move of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain
A fountain, from the Latin "fons" (genitive "fontis"), meaning source or Spring (hydrology), spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect. Fountains were originally purely functional, connected to springs or aqueduct (watercourse), aqueducts and used to provide drinking water and water for bathing and washing to the residents of cities, towns and villages. Until the late 19th century most fountains operated by gravity, and needed a source of water higher than the fountain, such as a reservoir or aqueduct, to make the water flow or jet into the air. In addition to providing drinking water, fountains were used for decoration and to celebrate their builders. Roman fountains were decorated with bronze or stone masks of animals or heroes. In the Middle Ages, Moorish and Muslim garden designers used fountains to create miniature versions of the gardens of paradise. King Louis XIV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melgaço, Portugal
Melgaço () is a municipality in Viana do Castelo District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,213, in an area of 238.25 km². It is the northernmost municipality in Portugal. The present Mayor is Manoel Batista, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day. History Parada do Monte, Gave and the plateau of Castro Laboreiro were locations of many megalithic burial mounds and graves that suggest the presence of human settlement in the mountains of the region. Alongside is the hilltop castle, that stood firm during the Galician-Leonese battles. Over the streams they built bridges in solid masonry, while dozens of fishing villages sprung from the banks of the River Minho, in addition to the Romanesque convents, churches and chapels, some of which are quite Romanesque. Oral tradition suggest that the castle of Melgaço was constructed during the reign of King D. Afonso Henriques, around 1170. It was this monarch that conceded to Melgaço the first f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain
A fountain, from the Latin "fons" (genitive "fontis"), meaning source or Spring (hydrology), spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure that jets water into the air for a decorative or dramatic effect. Fountains were originally purely functional, connected to springs or aqueduct (watercourse), aqueducts and used to provide drinking water and water for bathing and washing to the residents of cities, towns and villages. Until the late 19th century most fountains operated by gravity, and needed a source of water higher than the fountain, such as a reservoir or aqueduct, to make the water flow or jet into the air. In addition to providing drinking water, fountains were used for decoration and to celebrate their builders. Roman fountains were decorated with bronze or stone masks of animals or heroes. In the Middle Ages, Moorish and Muslim garden designers used fountains to create miniature versions of the gardens of paradise. King Louis XIV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia
''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The ''parroquia'' in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a ''freguesia''. A ''freguesia'' is a subdivision of a ''município'' (municipality). Most often, a parish takes the name of its seat, which is usually the most important (or the single) human agglomeration within its area, which can be a neighbourhood or city district, a group of hamlets, a village, a town or an entire city. In cases where the seat is itself divided into more than one parish, each one takes the name of a landmark within its area or of the patron saint from the usually co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melgaço Municipality, Portugal in western Brazil
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Melgaço may refer to: * Melgaço, Portugal, a municipality in Portugal * Melgaço, Pará, a municipality in Pará, Brazil * Barão de Melgaço, a municipality in Mato Grosso, Brazil * Barão de Melgaço River The Barão de Melgaço River is a river of Rondônia state in western Brazil. See also *List of rivers of Rondônia List of rivers in Rondônia (Brazilian State). The list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norte Region, Portugal
The North Region ( pt, Região do Norte ) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon Region, Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area. The region has 3,576,205 inhabitants according to the 2017 census, and its area is with a density of 173 inhabitants per square kilometre. It is one of five Regions of Portugal, regions of Mainland Portugal (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS II subdivisions). Its main population center is the urban area of Porto, with about one million inhabitants; it includes a larger political metropolitan region with 1.8 million, and an urban-metropolitan agglomeration with 2.99 million inhabitants, including Porto and neighboring cities, such as Braga, Guimarães and Póvoa de Varzim. The Commission of Regional Coordination of the North (CCDR-N) is the agency that coordinates environmental policies, land-use planning, cities and the overall development of this region, supporting local governments and ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fonte Sao Joao Baptista
Fonte means ''fountain'', ''source'' and/or ''spring'' in several languages, and is thus present in many toponyms and titles. It may also refer to: People * Allison Fonte (born 1964), American actress and pianist * Artur Fonte (born 1959), Portuguese football player * Bartholomew de Fonte, Spanish admiral involved in the early knowledge of the Pacific Northwest * César Fonte (born 1986), Portuguese cyclist * Emanuele Fonte (born 1992), Italian football player * Francesco Fonte (born 1965), Italian football player * Jeanne de la Fonte, birth name of Renée Adorée (1898–1933), French actress * John Fonte, philosopher involved in transnational progressivism * José Fonte (born 1983), Portuguese football player * Marcello Fonte (born 1978), Italian actor * Maria Inês Fonte (born 2002), Portuguese tennis player * Mike da Fonte (born 1991), American football player * Moderata Fonte (1555–1592), Venetian writer and poet * Pedro José de Fonte y Hernández Miravete (1777–1839), M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnos Dei-Melgaco
Agnos (; oc, Anhòs) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region in southwestern France. Agnos is part of the urban area (''unité urbaine'') of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Agnosiens'' or ''Agnosiennes'' Geography Agnos is located just 2 km south of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and some 25 km southwest of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau. It can be accessed on the D155 road from Bidos in the northeast coming southwest to the village then continuing southeast to Gurmençon. The D555 road also passes through the commune from the north and joins the D155 northeast of the village. The commune is mixed farmland and forests with the forests scattered throughout the commune. The river Mielle, a tributary of the Gave d'Oloron (Adour basin), flows through the commune. Places and hamlets * La Baig * Candalot * Dufau * Fontaine Anglade * Labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
