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Caldeiroa Street

Coordinates: 41°26′22″N 8°17′47″W / 41.439353°N 8.296432°W / 41.439353; -8.296432
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Caldeiroa Street
Rua da Caldeirôa (Caldeirôa Street)
The Caldeiroa Street in December 2023
Caldeiroa Street is located in Portugal
Caldeiroa Street
Location of the street in Portugal
Native nameRua da Caldeiroa (Portuguese)
Former name(s)Rua Dr. Trindade Coelho (1910-1943)
Part ofHistoric Centre of Guimarães
TypeIndustrial and medieval street
LocationOliveira, São Paio e São Sebastião and Urgezes, Guimarães, Portugal
Coordinates41°26′22″N 8°17′47″W / 41.439353°N 8.296432°W / 41.439353; -8.296432
Other
StatusPreserved

The Caldeiroa Street (Portuguese: Rua da Caldeiroa) is a very important street in the Portuguese city of Guimarães, since it once had a huge part of the city's industry and factories. Its name origin was lost to time.[1]

Landmarks

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Along its route there are many notable architectural and cultural testimonies of the past:

History

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The first mention to this street dates to 1265.[8] A strip of paper in archaic Portuguese from 1445 also mentions the street: "Rua Caldeiroa, de uma casa latada, anno 1445", which means “Caldeiroa Street, from a large house, year 1445”.[9]

In the 1890s, the Caldeiroa Street's floor was rebuilt with the extra stone that resulted from the demolition of the old church of S. Sebastião, whose bell tower was transplanted to the parish church of Creixomil.[1]

In the early 1940s, a fountain and an oratory were removed from the Caldeiroa Street, where an image of Christ was on display, which, at the time of removal, was handed over to the parish priest of São Sebastião.[1]

The Caldeiroa Street is one of the oldest streets in Guimarães. At the end of 1910, the newly installed Republic changed its name, officially renaming it Rua Dr. Trindade Coelho (Dr. Trindade Coelho Street). But the people, were not happy with the name change and continued to call it by the name they had always known it by. In 1943, the city council once again made the historic name of this old street official, bringing back the name Caldeiroa once more.[1]

In 2020 the pavement of the road was redone[10] and the traffic direction was inverted.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Ruas antigas: Caldeiroa". Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  2. ^ admin (2020-09-10). "Escola de Engenharia Aeroespacial será instalada na antiga Fábrica do Arquinho". ENGIUM (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  3. ^ Pontes, Célia Maria Vilela (January 2013). "Casas Brasonadas de Guimarães: Um itinerário Turístico-Cultural" (PDF). repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt. pp. 68–69. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  4. ^ "Monumentos". www.monumentos.gov.pt. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  5. ^ "A GRAUM é a empresa responsável pela reabilitação do edifício Casa dos Lobatos". Graum (in European Portuguese). 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  6. ^ Geral. "Casa da Caldeiroa acolhe 10 menores não acompanhados do Afeganistão a necessitarem de protecção internacional". GUIMARAESDIGITAL.COM (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  7. ^ Geral. "Edifício reabilitado para acolhimento de 15 menores refugiados na Rua da Caldeiroa". GUIMARAESDIGITAL.COM (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  8. ^ "Testamento de Alfonsus Petri (1265)". archeevo.amap.pt. 1265. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Archeevo". archeevo.amap.pt. 1445. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Rua da Caldeiroa renasce na cidade de Guimarães". www.cm-guimaraes.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-19.
  11. ^ Guimarães, Mais (2021-12-18). "Rua da Caldeiroa apresenta-se renovada e reabriu ao trânsito". Mais Guimarães (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-12-19.