About Leiria
The Pine of the King, National Forest of Leiria, or Pinhal de Leiria is a Portuguese forest. It has 11,080 ha, covering the parishes of Marinha Grande and Vieira de Leiria, with only well inserted and fully in the municipality of Marinha Grande. In Portugal, the pine forest of Leiria marked the beginning of intensive […]
In the Medieval Kingdom of Portugal, the Cortes was an assembly of representatives of the estates of the realm - the nobility, clergy and bourgeoisie. It was called and dismissed by the King of Portugal at will, at a place of his choosing.[1] Cortes which brought all three estates together are sometimes distinguished as Cortes-Gerais (General Courts), in contrast to smaller assemblies which brought only one or two estates, to […]
The town of Leiria developed from the hill where the castle is deployed. After the thirteenth century went downhill until you reach the river Lis. Leiria was born the Roman Collipo, founded in the first century BC, which have existed on the hill of San Sebastian, near Andreus. The entire town was under Moorish rule, […]
There are three legends, the local imaginary, involving the castle. According to one, with the castle in possession of the Moors, was preparing King Afonso Henriques to resume it. By watching the crows flew over the castle, it seemed that repeated “not now, tomorrow morning.” For this reason, she waited until dawn to deliver the […]
By consolidating his rule from 1128, the young D. Afonso Henriques (1112-1185), planned to expand their domains, then limited the north by the Minho River to the southwest by the Serra da Estrela and the south by the Mondego river. To this end, from 1130, invaded several times the neighboring territory of Galicia in the […]
The region around Leiria has been inhabited for a long time, although its early history is obscure. The first evident inhabitants were the Turduli Oppidani, a Celtiberiantribe (akin to the Lusitanians), who established a settlement near (around 7 km) present-day Leiria. This settlement was later occupied by the Romans, who expanded it under the original Celtiberian name Collippo. The stones of the ancient […]
