MARVÃO
N 39.39625; W 7.37748
Marvão is a Portuguese village located in the district of Portalegre, Alentejo region and sub-region of Alto Alentejo.
It is the seat of the municipality of Marvão with an area of 154.9 km² and 3,021 inhabitants (2021), subdivided into 4 parishes. The municipality is limited to the north and east by Spain, to the south and west by the municipality of Portalegre and to the northwest by Castelo de Vide.
History
Since at least the Roman period, the rocks of Maranhão have been used as a refuge or as a strategic military point. In the 10th century it was referred to by the Hispano-Muslim Cordovan historian Issa ibne Amade Razi as Amaia de ibne Maruane and Fortaleza de Amaia, a fortress that in 884 served as a refuge for the founder of Marvão, the rebel muladi ibne Maruane Aliliqui, "The Galician" ( died 889), leader of a Sufi movement in Alandalus, who took up arms against the emirs of Córdoba and created a kind of independent kingdom based in Badajoz until the establishment of the Caliphate of Córdoba in 931.
The town was conquered from the Muslims by D. Afonso Henriques during the campaigns of 1160/1166, having been taken again by the Moors in the counteroffensive of Iacube Almançor (r. 1184–1199), in 1190. In 1226, D. Sancho II gave it a charter to the population and ordered the castle to be enlarged. In 1299, D. Dinis disputed and took the castle, which was included in the plan for his military reconstructions and came to have great strategic importance in the wars with the Castilians.
Parishes
The parishes in the municipality of Marvão are as follows:
Beirã
Santa Maria de Marvão
Santo Antônio das Areias
São Salvador de Aramenha
Heritage
(EN)
Marvão Castle
Convent of Our Lady of the Star
Roman city of Ammaia - Roman ruins
Excuse Gutters
(PT)
Castelo de Marvão
Convento de Nossa Senhora da Estrela
Cidade romana de Ammaia - ruínas romanas
Caleiras de Escusa
Convent of Nossa Senhora da Estrela /
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Marvão /
Home of Santa Casa da Misericórdia
Portugal, Portalegre, Marvão, Santa Maria de Marvão
The Franciscan convent was founded in the century. 13, with the current building from the 16th century, adapted to Hospital de Misericórdia in the 19th century. 19. From the original design, resulting from the works of the century. 15, the cloister remains covered with ribbed vaults and torn by some broken arches. From the interventions carried out in the centuries. 18 and 19 stand out the corridors and outbuildings of the upper floor of the bodies that surround the cloister, such as the cloister or the kitchen and dining area, although with occasional changes, dating from the 19th century. 20. The hospital building is simple and of a vernacular nature and is identified with the typology of the Franciscan convents by the structure of the entrance and the lowered arch of the entrance, as well as by the layout of the various conventual facilities, although much altered concerning the layout. primitive. Inside the church, the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Estrela, founded in the 19th century, stands out for its opulence. 16, but with a Baroque decoration, the stone of arms, and the main altarpiece in stonework, similar to the one in the chancel.
