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132:. He lived in Póvoa civic center because there he could easily recruit men. This noble and influential family provided great benefits to Póvoa during that period. Madre Deus Chapel was an important building, popular amongst the common people due to its central location in the town and even more popular than the first church, the ancient Senhora de Varzim Church, located in
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The new church opened to the public on
January 6, 1757. It was of a large size and high artistic value for such a small, but growing, community. With the new church, the parochial community expanded to include nearby parishes such as Terroso and Amorim, where there were only very small chapels. After
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The area between the Madre Deus Chapel and the Town Hall, referred to as a "square of this town" in 1596, was the true civic center, coming close to the role that a square played in a medieval city, where a cathedral or church dominated, the market took place and where the most important buildings of
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Those surrounding parishes were integrated by the civil administration into the
Municipality of Póvoa de Varzim after the liberal reforms of 1836. João Martins Gaio and his wife, Maria Afonso, were the chapel administrators. They and their son, Jorge Martins Gaio, were authorized to be buried in the
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under a feudal structure. King Denis also encouraged the creation of free fairs all around the kingdom. In time, the Praça became the site of the free fair and the location for the public butchery. It was a wide area bordered by the Town Hall (from the 15th century) and the Madre Deus Chapel (prior
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Póvoa de Varzim has a very good town hall with the town's coat of arms painted on the ceiling of the hearing room. These same coat of arms are used in its senate standard ... and on the outside wall the Royal coat of arms are located. And this house is formed over six arches with its casing, and
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These included Amador
Alvares, explorer of the route to India, and navigators Pedro Fernandes, Diogo Pyz de São Pedro, Lourenço Dias and others. This bourgeoisie was the owner of most of the real estate around the square which the population saw as the urban area.
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the city were built. The building of the Town Hall supplied the square with arches that were used as protection from the sun or rain, in this way it was the hub of public life. The local prison was also located on the Town Hall's ground floor.
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The importance of the Praça as the civic, economic and political center started to be broken down after the 1791 Royal
Provision which restructured the urban arrangement of Póvoa de Varzim and relocated the municipal powers to the new square.
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The early Town Hall governed the municipality from the Praça from the first half of the 16th century and probably much earlier. The building was probably built in the 15th century and originally had an arcade structure.
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the building of the new church, the Praça became quadrangular in shape and was diminished in size, not only because of the church but also due to other buildings that had been constructed.
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and was located in the royal land established by the early
Portuguese kings after disputes with the Lords of Varzim. Throw Rua de São Pedro street, it bordered the
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with the coat of arms carved in rock, by authorization of the archbishop of Braga venerated Sir
Barthelomeu dos Martires, given during the visit to the Town of
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Martins Gaio, related with the maritime trade of
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wrote a charter in which he gave his royal land in Varzim to 54 local families. The inhabitants would have to create a "
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223:Guimarães
202:Esposende
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859:Rio Alto
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198:chapel "
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815:Fragosa
790:Redonda
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450:Culture
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172:Terroso
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800:Verde
679:Touro
219:Braga
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