Trancoso is a municipality (in Portuguese: concelho or município ) of the Portugal, located in the District of Guarda and the area Centers.

Geography

Trancoso is bordering:

• in north, of Penedono,
• in the North-East, of Mêda,
• in the east, of Pinhel,
• in the south, of Celorico da Beira,
• in south-west, of Fornos de Algodres,
• in the west, of Aguiar da Beira,
• in the North-West, of Sernancelhe.

History

Trancoso is today encircled walls, time dionisiana, with beautiful castle, such a medieval, with decouronner this majesteux unit strengthened.

With their many monuments, civil architecture and religious, constitutes one of most expressive and beautiful historical centres of the country, visited annually per many thousands of people.

They are detached, between all, the parish churches of Holy Maria and Pedro Saint, the House of the Arcs, of century XVI, the church of the Mercy, the House of the Black Cat (a curious building of the old judaïque district), and the Pilori, the beautiful piece of the purest style manuelino.

Not forgetting the seniority, nevertheless, Trancoso maintain traces medieval in the historical center almost inalterable, being outside an already modern and planed urban means.

In this city born also the prophet and the shoe-maker Gonçalo Bandarra Asses, the Francisco Priest.

Here they slowed down important battles, between which the battle of Marcos Saint, in a plate insufficient kilometers of the historical center, in 1385, which imposed heavy puts in failure on the invading troops and which it was psychic the very important one for the battle of Aljubarrota.

Trancoso passed to on December 9th, 2004

Demography

Subdivisions

The municipality of Trancoso groups 30 parishes (Freguesia, in Portuguese):

• Aldeia Nova
• Carnicães
• Castanheira
• Cogula
• Coriscada
• Cótimos
• Feital
• Fiães
• Freches
• Granja
• Guilheiro
• Moimentinha
• Moreira de Rei
• Palhais
• Póvoa C Concelho
• Reboleiro
• Rio de Mel
• Santa Maria (Trancoso)
• São Pedro (Trancoso)
• Sebadelhe da Serra
• Souto Maior
• Tamanhos
• Terrenho
• Torre C Terrenho
• Torres
• Valdujo
• Vale C Seixo
• Villa Franca das Naves
• Villa Garcia
• Vilares

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