Church of Saint James the Great in Camarate

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Camarate is a parish in the Loures municipality, Lisbon district, Portugal. Located to the east of Lisbon, it borders Apelação, Frielas, Prior Velho, Sacavém and Unhos in the Loures municipality, parts of Odivelas and Lisbon, and the Portela de Sacavém airport. Camarate has an area of 5.52 sq km and a population of 23,000 as of 2001. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1903x1490, 457 KB) Igreja de Camarate, Loures, Portugal Foto tirada por Paulo Juntas em Maio de 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Camarate ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1903x1490, 457 KB) Igreja de Camarate, Loures, Portugal Foto tirada por Paulo Juntas em Maio de 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: Camarate ... For people and places called Saint James, see the diambiguation page. ... Image File history File links Crest of Camarate, Loures (Portugal) Author: Sérgio Horta The author has agreed to usage of his works under the GNU-FDL, as long as he is quoted as the source: Caro Senhor, Manuel Anastácio File links The following pages link to this file... Image File history File links Crest of Camarate, Loures (Portugal) Author: Sérgio Horta The author has agreed to usage of his works under the GNU-FDL, as long as he is quoted as the source: Caro Senhor, Manuel Anastácio File links The following pages link to this file... A parish is a subdivision. ... Loures is a municipality (concelho) to the north of Lisbon. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ... Sacavém CoA Vasco da Gama Bridge Sacavém is a city in Portugal, near the capital Lisbon. ... Odivelas is a city, in the concelho (municipality) of Odivelas in the district of Lisbon, in Portugal. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ...

The patron saint of the Camarate parish is Saint James the Great, to whom the Church of Santiago de Camarate, with its magnificent baroque paintings and altars, is dedicated. The parish was created in 1511 by a royal decree of King Emmanuel I separating it from the parish of Sacavém. Camarate was elevated to the status of a village by a decree of the Portuguese National Assembly in 1996. For people and places called Saint James, see the diambiguation page. ... Events Diego Velázquez and Hernán Cortés conquer Cuba; Velázquez appointed Governor. ... Manuel I of Portugal (Archaic Portuguese: Manoel I, English: Emanuel I), the Fortunate (Port. ... Sacavém CoA Vasco da Gama Bridge Sacavém is a city in Portugal, near the capital Lisbon. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Camarate was historically a country retreat for the Lisboan nobility. It was well-known for its local wine, produced in the fertile farms that characterized the parish until the mid-twentieth century. Since then, industrialization has transformed it into into an urbanized town.

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Camarate is famous for being the home of 20th century Portuguese poet and pioneer of Portuguese literary modernism Mário de Sá Carneiro. Sadly, it is known for being the site of the accident or possible assassination that took the life of the Portuguese social-democrat Prime-Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro and his wife, and also the Christian-Democrat Defense Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa, on December 4, 1980, preceding the presidential elections of the same year. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata) is a political party in Portugal. ... Francisco Manuel Lumbrales de Sá Carneiro (Oporto July 19, 1934 - Camarate December 4, 1980), was Prime Minister of Portugal for eleven months in 1980. ... Adelino Amaro da Costa (Lisbon, 18 April 1943-Camarate, 4 December 1980) was a Portuguese politician. ... December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...