Santa Comba Dão, on the River Dão

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Santa Comba Dão lies on the River Dão. According to a story told by the council, its name recalls Columba, a Benedictine abbess said to have been martyred in 982 during a Moorish raid; Columba became Santa Comba, and the waters of the Dão did the rest. The first documents date from the 10th century, starting with a donation to the Monastery of Lorvão in 974, and the council's account points to traces of Roman occupation in several places around the municipality. In 1102 the Monastery of Lorvão granted a charter to the people of Santa Comba and Treixedo to attract settlers, since the area had been badly devastated during the Reconquista. The lands later passed to the Bishop of Coimbra, and in 1472 Bishop Galvão styled himself Count of Santa Comba Dão. King Manuel I gave the town its charter in 1514. In the 19th century the neighbouring municipalities of Óvoa, Couto do Mosteiro and Pinheiro (1836) and São João de Areias (1895) were merged into Santa Comba Dão, which became a city in 1999. The Ecopista do Dão, a 48 km cycle path along the former Dão railway line, closed in 1990, links Viseu, Tondela and Vimieiro.

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