After Being in Mechanical for review, the Carcassinha back down the road ...
José Maria dos Santos (1832-1913) was a Portuguese farmer,
Son of a blacksmith of Lisbon, became the largest Portuguese wine producer, the result of a business management skills only at the time.
It is said that planted the highest vineyards in the world, in the farm of Rio Frio to Poceirão, after finding fortune to marry the Baroness of S. Romão, widow of the capitalist Lisbon Manuel Gomes da Costa S. Romão.
This had all the titles that property acquired, in the 50th century. Century, with the allotment of Venda do Alcaide, thus transferring capital from the urban to the agricultural sector (which now it is a very vulgar).
By creating such a vineyard, called people and workers in the area Caramulo to work on the land and harvesting crops, creating a small company ... these workers came to the Pinhal Novo steam train at the station railway of this town was the center of developing the same, together with the extensive pine forest planted by the founder, Jose Maria dos Santos, around the station, thus giving the town its name.
Pinhal Novo is a parish in the municipality of Palmela, with 55.84 kilometers ² and 20 993 inhabitants (2001). Density: 375.9 inhabitants / km ².
High, under the administrative organization of the Portuguese, the Statute of Town on 10 February 1928, has a dimension and urban services, manufacturing related to electric wires and electrodes (Electro-Arco) and car mechanics.
It is a railroad center. However, it tends to a significant increase in trade and even industrial (so-called high-tech industries) due to projects that will install in the vicinity, such as the Logistics Platform of Poceirão, Transport High-Speed (TGV), thereby binding a bridge in Lisbon (Chelas-Barreiro) and Madrid and the future international airport of Lisbon in the area of Campo de Tiro de Alcochete.
Elevated to the hierarchy of the village in 1988 by Law No. 45/88 of 19/04/1988, their population growth augurs that, sooner or later be elevated to the position in the hierarchy of city and county.
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