Carregal do Sal

Carregal do Sal is a municipality in Viseu District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,835, in an area of 116.89 km².The present mayor is Atílio dos Santos Nunes, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is the second Monday after the third Sunday of July.ParishesAdministratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes : Beijós Cabanas de Viriato Currelos, Papízios e Sobral Oliveira do Conde ParadaHistoryThe municipality was created in 1836, by merging the now extinct Currelos and Oliveira do Conde municipalities. There was a place in Currelos called Carregal. Later it became known as “do Sal” in the town border, where Francisco Lucas de Melo Pais do Amaral ordered, moreover, the build of the house named after it, today the Museu Municipal Manuel Soares de Albergaria.