history
Bougado (São Martinho e Santiago) is the parish of the city of Trofa, in the district of Porto, covering 27.48 km² and home to 21,374 inhabitants (2021 census). It was established in 2013, as part of the national administrative reform, through the merger of the former parishes of São Martinho de Bougado and Santiago de Bougado. Until 1998, both belonged to the municipality of Santo Tirso; that year they were transferred to the newly created municipality of Trofa.<p>According to tradition, the territory of Santiago de Bougado began to be permanently settled in the 1st century, when the Romans, established in Alvarelhos, ordered the cultivation of the fertile lands at the foot of the mountain they called Cidai. From this emerged the villages of Maganha, Lantemil, Bairros and Lagoa; Cedões arose in the 10th century and the village of Trofa in the 15th century. The parish of Santiago de Bougado was created in the 6th century, and the Inquirições of King Afonso III recorded fifty households there in 1258, with the church in the village of Lagoa. Under the Manueline charter of the Terras da Maia, dating from 1519, Santiago de Bougado remained in the municipality of Maia until 1836, when it passed to Santo Tirso. Until that date, the land was governed by the Confraria do Subsino, elected every two years at the Mesa da Audiência, at the end of the people's mass.<p>In 1984, São Martinho and Santiago de Bougado became the town of Trofa, which was raised to city status in 1993. Within the parish stand the Igreja de Santiago de Bougado (Church), designed by Nicolau Nasoni, the Capela e o Parque de Nossa Senhora das Dores (Chapel and Park), the Monte de São Gens de Cidai, the chestnut groves of Lagoa and Bairros, and the Parque das Azenhas. In November, the Festa de São Martinho is held, organised by the Parish Council and the Parish of São Martinho de Bougado.
