Everything about Belmonte Portugal totally explained
Belmonte (
pron. ) is a municipality in
Portugal. It has a total area of 118.8
km² and a total population of 7,662 inhabitants.
The municipality is composed of five parishes and is located in the district of
Castelo Branco.
The present mayor is Amândio Manuel Ferreira de Melo, elected by the
Socialist Party.
The municipal holiday is
April 26.
Belmonte is also the birth place of
Pedro Álvares Cabral, the navigator who discovered the land of Vera Cruz, now
Brazil. Located in the Church of Santa Maria are the iconic image statue of Nossa Senhora da Esperança (Our Lady of Hope), which accompanied Cabral in his voyage. The image was, until 1834, in the Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Esperança, now transformed in a modern charm hotel.
Belmonte Jews
Belmonte is home to the last remaining community of
marranos (known as
Belmonte Jews) who officially returned to
Judaism in the
1970s, and opened a
synagogue in
1996. In
2003, the
Belmonte Project was founded under the auspices of the
American Sephardi Federation, in order to raise funds to acquire Judaic educational material and services for the community (which now numbers 160-180).
In the summer of 2006, the American Sephardi Federation ceased to have the Belmonte Project under its auspices.
A
Jewish Museum of Belmonte (
Museu Judaico de Belmonte) opened on 17 April, 2005.
Parishes
- Belmonte (formerly Santa Maria and São Tiago, extinct in 1831)
- Caria
- Colmeal da Torre
- Ínguias
- Maçaínhas
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