Vialonga is a town and civil parish in the municipality of

Vila Franca de Xira Vila Franca de Xira () is a city and municipality in the Lisbon District in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 137,659, in an area of 318.19 km2. Situated on both banks of the Tagus River, 32 km north-east of the Portuguese capital ...

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. Its population in 2021 was 21,261.

History

The land where present-day Vialonga stands was occupied by humans in prehistoric ages, as evidenced by the

dolmen A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were some ...

cemeteries in Monte Serves and Casal do Penedo in the Vialonga parish. Other prehistoric religious objects, ornaments, metallic weapons and ceramics have been found in the area. It is believed that the settlement in this area comes from the times of Moorish rule in the Iberian Peninsula. Over the centuries, the settlement had various subtle changes in its name: Vila Longa, Vila-Longa, Via Longa, Via-Longa, until the current form "Vialonga". In 1852, the civil parish of Vialonga was integrated in the Olivais municipality. After a restructuring of the

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municipality in 1886, Vialonga became part of the

municipality. On 12 July 1985, the locality of Forte da Casa, until then part of the Vialonga parish, became a new civil parish. On 24 September 1985, Vialonga was promoted to the category of town (''vila''). In November 2014, Vialonga was one of the locations most affected by a Legionella outbreak in the Vila Franca de Xira municipality.{{Cite web, title=Quatro anos depois do surto, processo da 'legionella' sem data para a instrução, url=https://www.dn.pt/pais/processo-da-legionella-continua-em-vila-franca-de-xira-e-sem-data-para-a-instrucao-10141149.html, access-date=2021-03-14, website=www.dn.pt, language=pt

References

External links

Junta de Freguesia Vialonga
(in Portuguese) Freguesias of Vila Franca de Xira