LORIGA

LORIGA, land of Viriathus ( lusitanian/portuguese national hero ) and the capital of the snow in PORTUGAL

LORIGA

Loriga is an ancient, beautiful and historic small portuguese town, located in the Serra da Estrela mountains.
Known as Lobriga by the Lusitanians and Lorica by the Romans, it is more than 2600 years old.
Notable people from Loriga include Viriathus ( known as Viriato in Portuguese ), a famous Lusitanian leader and portuguese national hero.
Loriga as enormous touristics potentialities and they are the only ski resort and ski trails existing in Portugal ( Loriga is the Lusian Capital and the capital of the snow in Portugal ).


Loriga is a small town in Portugal located in Guarda District.
Loriga is 20 km away from the village of Seia, 40 km away from Viseu, 80 km away
from Guarda and 320 km from Lisbon. It is nestled in the Serra da Estrela
mountain range.
It is known as the "Portuguese Switzerland" due to its landscape: a small town
surrounded by mountains.
Known to be settled by the Lusitanians, the town is more than 2600 years old and
was part of the Roman province of Lusitania. It was known as Lobriga by the
Lusitanians and Lorica by the Romans.
Loriga became a textile manufacturing center in the begin-19th century. While that
industry has since dissipated, today the town attracts a sizable tourist trade
due to its picturesque scenery and vicinity to the Serra da Estrela Ski Resort, the only
ski center in Portugal, totally inside the town limits.



Concise note on the history of Loriga

Loriga is an ancient,beautiful and historic small portuguese
town,located in the Serra da Estrela mountains.
Known as Lobriga by the Lusitanians and Lorica by the Romans,it is
more 2600 years old.Lorica,was the name given by the Romans the
Lobriga,population the was,in the Hermínius(current Serra da Estrela
mountains)a strong Lusitanian bastion against the romans
invaders.The Hermínius had been the biggest lusitanian fortress and
situated Lorica in the heart of this fortress,close to the high
point.Lorica,latin it,is name of old warlike harness,from that it
derived Loriga,with signification.The Romans had the same put such
name to it,due to its strategical position in the mountain range,and
to its protagonism during the war with Lusitanians.(LORICA
LUSITANORUM CASTRUM EST).This a case rare of a name that if it
practically keeps unchanged has two a thousand years,being highly
significant of the antiquity and the history of the population(the
Lorica is the central piece in the coat of arms).
The population was established strategically in the high one of a
hill,between two banks,in an beautiful origin valley glacier,where
the presence human being exists has,at least,five a thousand
years.Ignore if as it is evident,remote date of the foundation,but
it is known that the population exists more than has two thousand
and six hundred years,and appeared originally in the same place
where today Valley of Loriga is the historical center of the town.No
exist currently,beyond the town,the villages of Cabeça,Muro,Casal do
Rei,and Vide.
Of the time daily pay Roman exists,for example an antropomorphus
sepulture,in a place where one old sanctuary existed,at a time where
the name of the population was Lobriga,etymology of evident origin
celtic.Lobriga,was an important strenghtened population,celtic and
lusitanian,in the mountain range.Notable people from Loriga include
Viriathus (known as Viriato in portuguese),a famous Lusitanian
leader and portuguese national hero.
The local tradition,and diverse old documents,point Loriga as having
been cradle of Viriathus,that was born,without a doubt,in the
Hermínius,where the existing description in the book was interesting
shepherd since child.The manuscript History of the Lusitania,of
Bispo-Mor do Reino(1580):"...Succeeded the Viriato shepherd,born in
Lobriga,today the small town of Loriga,in the top of a mountain of
the mountain range of the Star,Bishopric of the Coimbra,to which,the
forty years of age,will acclaim King of the Lusitanians,and married
in Évora with a noble lady in year 147...".A main street,of the area
oldest of the historical center of the town has the name of
Viriathus.
Still today parts of the road,and one of the two bridges(century I
b.C.),with that the Romans had bound to Lorica to remain empire.A
bridge still existing Roman,on the bank of Loriga,it is in good
condition of conservation,and is a good unit of the architecture of
the time.The road Roman bound to Lorica the
Egittânia(Idanha-a-Velha),Talabara(Alpedrinha),Sellium(Tomar),
Scallabis(Santarém),Olisipo(Lisbon) and the
Longóbriga(Longroiva),Verurium(Viseu),Balatucellum(Bobadela),
Conímbriga(Condeixa) and Aeminium(Coimbra).
When the Romans arrived,the population were divided in two separate
nucleus for few hundreds of meters.The bigger and main he was placed
in the area where today the First Church and part of the Street of
Viriathus,being defended by walls and palisade.The exist another
nucleus,constituted only some habitations,it a small promontory
rocky.In local exists the Quarter of S.Ginês (S.Gens).
Loriga,was also important for the Visigods,which had left
ermida,probably the older christian temple construted in the
locality,dedicated to the S.Gens,a saint of celtic origin,martirize
in Arles,the Galia,the time of emperor Diocleciano.A suffered
workmanships from alteration and patron was substituted,starting to
be Ours Saint Mary Lady of the Carmo.With the ticket of the
centuries,the loricenses had started to know the saint for
S.Ginês,today name of a quarter of the historical center of the
town.A current derivation of the name,Loriga,started to be used for
the Visigods.
The first church has,in one of lateral doors,a rock with visigotics
registrations,used to advantage when of the construction dated of
1233 and was proper king ( in the time D.Sancho II ) ordered to
constrution.A old church,was a romanic temple with three ships,with
it traces fellow creature to the one of the old Sé de Coimbra,even
so the building had different dimensions,it had the ceiling one and
vault painted,and,when it was destroyed by the earthquake of year
1755,was possession pictures of the school of Grão Vasco in the
walls.
Since it reconquers christian,who Loriga was under the exclusive
real administrative influence and ecclesiastical of Coimbra,include
the Vigariaria do Padroado Real.In the second half of century XII
already existed the parish of Loriga,and the faithful of then the
small places or "couples"of the outskirts,came to the town to attend
the religious services.
The town of Loriga,received municipal charters (Forais) from
Rhãnia(seigniory João of Lands of Loriga in the time of D.Afonso
Henriques)in 1136,D.Afonso III in 1249,D.Afonso V in1474,and
received charter new from D.Manuel I in 1514.With D.Afonso III,the
town returned to the ownership of the Crown,and in 1474,D.Afonso V
donated to Loriga to the Àlvaro Machado noble,axe donation confirmed
in 1477,and later for D.Manuel I.But meanwhile,after he death of the
related noble,the town was enclosed definitively in the goods of the
Crowh.In the century XIII,the municipality of Loriga enclosed the
understood area enters the Portela de Loriga (today also known by
Portela do Arão) and Pedras Lavradas,including the areas of the
actuals clienteles of Alvoco da Serra,Cabeça,Teixeira,and Vide.In
the first half of the century XIX,in 1836,the municipality of Loriga
passed to enclosed the populations of the Valezim and Sazes da
Beira.Valezim,current historical village.Alvoco da Serra received
charter in 1514,and Vide received charter in the century XVII,but
the municipality of Loriga in 1828 had come back to be part do and
1834 respectively,also in beginning century XIX.The seven clienteles
who occupy the area of the old Loricense Municipality,currently
constitutes the called Region of Loriga and the Associação de
Freguesias da Serra da Estrela with head office in Loriga.
Loriga,is a industrial town(textile)since the beginning of century
XIX,when "it adhered"to the call industrial revolution,but,on longer
century XVI,the loricenses produced bureis and other cloths
woollen.Later,the metallurgy,the pastry shop,and more recently,the
tourism(Loriga as enormous touristics potentialities),pillars of the
economy had started to be part of them of town.In Loriga they are
the only ski resort and existing ski trails in Portugal.Loriga is
the Luso Capital and capital of the snow in Portugal.
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VIRIATHUS WAS BORN IN LORIGA

In 147 b.C.,thousands of Lusitanian warriors found themselves surrounded
by the military forces of magistrate Caio Vetílio.At first this seemed
like just another Roman attempt to seize the Iberian Península in the on
going war in which the Roman Republic had led for years.But pursued by the
enemy,the Lusitanians elect one of their own and hand him absolute
power.Born in Lobriga,Lusitania,Lorica for the Romans,current Loriga in
Portugal,this man,who for seven will taunt the Romans,is called Viriathus.
Between 147 and 139,the year in which he was killed (murder by Romans,he
was assassinated while sleeping),Viriathus successively defeated Roman
armies,led a greater part of the iberian peoples into revolt and was
responsible for the beginning of the war of Numância.
After the murder,the Lusitanian guerrilla was continued to resist,"the
women boke arms with the men,who died wiht a will,not a man of them
showing his back,or uttering a cry.Of the women who were captured some
killed themselves,others slew their children also with their own
hands,considering death preferable to captivity".
Viriathus,is considered the first Lusian figure,and also national hero in
Portugal.It was born without a doubt in the Hermínius,current Serra da
Estrela,wehere he was shepherd since child,more precisely in
Lobriga,Lorica for the Romans,current Loriga,in Portugal.
Viriathus,was praised had to is great qualities human beings,and of great
strategist to military and diplomat,inclusively for the old Romans
historians.Viriathus,proved that at the time,such as today,the individual
capacities do not depend on the social estratum nor of the academical
qualifications.Viriathus,was only one shepherd,accustomed since child to
cover mountains of the heart of the Lusitania.
Roman,the superpower of the time,only obtained to arrange away it to
win,resort to the shameful and dishonourable treason coward!Curiously,it
was after an act of high treason of the part of the Romans,wich cost the
life the thousand of disarmed Lusitanians,that Viriathus was elect to
leader for is compatriots.
Viriathus,leader that it directed with effectiveness the resistence of the
Lusitanians,ancestors of the Portugueses,against a powerful invader,is
considered since its time an example to follow.
Viriathus,was a true military genious,politician and
diplomat.But,moreover,he was the defender of a world asphyxiated by the
great Roman dominion.The world in which he very roots of Portugal are
implanted.
Viriathus,is a real portuguese national hero.


All information, photos and videos in viriathus.multiply.com and lorigaportugal.multiply.com


Loriga's Site - LINKS
Os melhores sites sobre a terra-natal de Viriato / The best sites about the land of Viriathus


viriathus.multiply.com

LorigaPortugal.multiply.com

LusitaniaPt.multiply.com

Lorica.no.sapo.pt

Loricae.no.sapo.pt

viriatus.no.sapo.pt

viladeloriga.no.sapo.pt

sites.google.com/site/LorigaPortugal

loricaloriga.no.sapo.pt

sites.google.com/site/LandofViriathus

loriga.sites.sapo.pt

members.virtualtourist.com/m/110692

vimeo.com/loriga

sites.google.com/site/terranataldeviriato


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Os melhores vídeos sobre a terra-natal de Viriato / The best videos about the land of Viriathus

viriathus.multiply.com/video

lorigaportugal.multiply.com/video

lusitaniapt.multiply.com/video

myspace.com/Loriga_Land_of_Viriathus

metacafe.com/channels/Loricense

dailymotion.com/Loricense

vimeo.com/LORIGA

youtube.com/user/MrVlRIATHUS#g/u

videos.sapo.pt/Loriguense/playview/2

members.virtualtourist.com/m/vb/0/110692

vimeo.com/loriga/videos

Outros sites sobre Loriga / Others sites about Loriga

LORIGA –
viriathus.multiply.com/
LORIGA –
lorigaportugal.multiply.com/
Loriga – História concisa
lorica.no.sapo.pt/
Loriga - Terra de Viriato - Viriathus was born in Loriga -
viriatus.no.sapo.pt/
LORIGA e a COMUNIDADE LUSÓFONA -
lusitaniapt.multiply.com/
Loriga – Vila de Portugal -
viladeloriga.no.sapo.pt/
Loriga – História resumida -
loricae.no.sapo.pt/
Loriga –
--loriga--.hi5.com/
Loriga e Sacavém – Localidades geminadas -
loricaloriga.no.sapo.pt/
Loriga – Grupo de Escolas -
eb23-dr-reis-leitao.rcts.pt/
Loriga – Escola Básica -
eb1-loriga.rcts.pt/
Loriga - Bombeiros Voluntários -
bvloriga.pt/
LORIGA –
sites.google.com/site/LandofViriathus
Loriga –
loriga.sites.sapo.pt/
Loriga -
lorigaportugal.wordpress.com
Loriga - Condições meteorológicas na vila -
wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=IDSERRAD1
Loriga - Empreendimento Turístico O Vicente -
ovicente.com/
Loriga – Portugal Web –
portugalweb.net/seia/freguesias/loriga/default.asp
Loriga -
loricense.wordpress.com/
Loriga - Glosk -
glosk.com/PO/Serra_da_Estrela/-2998664/pages/Loriga/2818_pt.htm
Loriga -
sites.google.com/site/terranataldeviriato
Loriga – Vídeos I –
myspace.com/Loriga_land_of_Viriathus
Loriga – Vídeos II –
metacafe.com/channels/Loricense
Loriga – Vídeos III –
dailymotion.com/Loricense
Loriga – Vídeos IV –
youtube.com/user/MrVlRIATHUS#g/u
Loriga – Vídeos V –
vimeo.com/loriga/video
Loriga – Vídeos VI –
videos.sapo.pt/Loriguense/playview/2
Loriga – Vídeos VII –
members.virtualtourist.com/m/vb/0/110692
Loriga – Vídeos VIII
vimeo.com/loriga/videos
Loriga - Imagens -
viriathus.multiply.com/photos
Loriga - Imagens 1 -
LorigaPortugal.multiply.com/photos
Loriga - Imagens 3 -
lusitaniapt.multiply.com/photos
Loriga - Imagens 4 -
-loriga-.hi5.com/
Loriga - Imagens 5 -
--loriga--.hi5.com/
Loriga – Portugal -
sites.google.com/site/LorigaPortugal
Loriga –
twitter.com/LORIGA
Loriga - Land of Viriathus -
groups.myspace.com/LORIGA
Loriga - Paróquia -
paroquias.org/jump.php?pid=245
Loriga - Povo Lusitano -
povo-lusitano.blogspot.com/
LORIGA - TERRA DE VIRIATO -
viriatus.no.sapo.pt/
LORIGA - VÍDEO 1 -
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=41648101
LORIGA - VÍDEO 2 -
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=41715846
LORIGA - VÍDEO 3 -
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=41846091
LORIGA - VÍDEO 4 -
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=100194960
LORIGA - VÍDEO 5 -
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=42677835
LORIGA - VÍDEO 6 -
youtube.com/watch?v=LWxYkVhT-t0
LORIGA - VÍDEO 7 -
youtube.com/watch?v=gewYrfD_wso
Loriga - Visite a bela e histórica vila -
viladeloriga.no.sapo.pt/
Loriga & Sacavém -
loricaloriga.no.sapo.pt/
Loriga –
members.virtualtourist.com/m/110692
Loriga –
vimeo.com/loriga
Loriga –
lorica.sites.sapo.pt/
Loriga –
viladeloriga.sites.sapo.pt/
Loriga –
lorigaesacavem.sites.sapo.pt/
Loriga – Terra de Viriato –
viriato.sites.sapo.pt/
Loriga –
vimeo.com/loriga
Loriga -
loriguense.wordpress.com.com/
Loriga na Enciclopédia -
tiosam.com/?q=loriga
LORIGA no Sapo,o maior portal português -
sapo.pt/cgi/getid?id=http://Viriathus.multiply.com
Loriga –
facebook.com/pages/Loriga/341458813206
Loriga War Graves -
southafricawargraves.org/lists/portugal.htm
Loriga – Commonwealth War Graves
ww2museums.com/article/3555/Commonwealth-War-Graves-Loriga.htm
Loriga_Land_of_Viriathus -
myspace.com/Loriga_Land_of_Viriathus
Loriga – Viriato -
facebook.com/pages/VIRIATO/107933515910837
Loriga - Casa das Fragas –
casadasfragas.com/
Loriga – Bombeiros Voluntários -
facebook.com/pages/BOMBEIROS-VOLUNTARIOS-DE-LORIGA/109750762396394
Loriga – Banda Filarmónica –
facebook.com/pages/BANDA-FILARMONICA-DE-LORIGA/123230311040192