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Historic Centre of Pinhel (*) - Why the Portuguese did not know you exist?

August 28, 2010 by Castile
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In late spring of 2002 and visited the historic city of Pinhel isolated and were amazed by its beauty. Quickly understand the importance of this small town serene and abandoned their bad luck and we knew it would be our home for a year.
A little history of Pinhel
The town had five charters, the first in 1179 for D. Afonso Henrique, and the last in 1510 at the behest of King Manuel I. Pinhel is located on the left bank of the river, although it is situated at some distance, was opposite the old district of Riba Côa that Portugal only incorporated in 1297 in the treaty of Alcañices. Dinis was who sent Pinhel rebuild the castle walls and the construction of very old, the best preserved in the country and currently its surrounding historical center.
He played an important role as a parade ground and border until the nineteenth century. It became the seat of the diocese and the city in 1770, by command of the Marques de Pombal, by detaching from the Diocese of Lamego, but in 1881 the Diocese of Pinhel was abolished and incorporated in the diocese of Guarda. Through it, the city has had some development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. But detaching the diocese, the railway station, built far away and the bad road access throughout the twentieth century declined Pinhel.

pinhel 300x188 Centro Histórico de Pinhel (*) Porque é que os portugueses não sabem que existes? Pinhel is still forgotten the tours
In relation to tourism is almost totally forgotten when confronted with the historical centers of neighboring counties - Trancoso (**), Castelo Rodrigo (*), Almeida (***), Castelo Mendo (**), Castelo Bom (*) , Sortelha (**) and Marialva (***) - and its monumentality is not in any way inferior to those places!
How is that one of the most interesting historical centers of Portugal is so degraded?
The traveler for three years and had recently resided in a few months Pinhel not cease to wonder what the cause of such unhappiness? How is that one of the most interesting historical centers of Portugal is so degraded?
The answer seems simple to me. The locomotive of the cohesion funds the European Union has not gone through here, by carelessness, negligence and incompetence of elected officials here vegetaram.

The small town is very rich in solar castiços and churches, but what binds us to our immediate attention are the walls that defended, and that there are still almost entirely, with battlement, turrets, five medieval gates and the point robust two high towers, lofty, and the North Tower (*) of great beauty.
I should add that the central square of Pinhel (*) (junction of three squares), could be one of the most beautiful in Portugal if it were reclassified.
As a conclusion, we mention some beautiful monuments of the city, beyond the castle that visitors should know: the church of the Trinity, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Mountains, the county's former Town Hall / Municipal Museum, the Bishop's Palace, Church of Santa Mary of the Castle, the church of Mercy, the pillory, the House of Metelos and Naples, solar Royal Court of the convent of St. Anthony, underground galleries, the Romanesque bridge over the stream of Goats ...
No doubt that this city deserves to win an afternoon to stroll quietly on its historic quarter.
Good tourism Pinhel!

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