Espaço Agros (in English Agros Space ) is an Agros organization business park and headquarters located in a 22 hectares (54 acres) park, located in the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim , with woods and ancient farming fields.
11-400: The plan for the park intended to keep the essential rural values of the location, with landscaping and environmental improvements. As such buildings and road construction were conditioned by this plan and quite apart from each other, and the most significant part of the woods were kept, in a clear intention to give the location a natural feeling of a large farm, as the location keeps in most part
22-487: Is popularly known as Anjo (angel). The parish of Argivai is, like many parishes of Póvoa de Varzim, very ancient and its founding date is not known. it is known that it already existed in the 11th century. In its territory, a pre-Roman Castro settlement known by the default name of Castro de Argivai. This settlement was probably a Castro Culture farmhouse, as the main settlement per se, was located in Cividade de Terroso . In
33-534: The Este river , with the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim being established in 1308. The lands outside the township were incorporated in the Lands of Faria, later incorporated in the county of Barcelos. With the urban enlargement of Póvoa de Varzim and the town's growth (disputing it with Barcelos), Argivai was reduced in size in 1707. Its remaining territory was finally incorporated in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim in 1836, as
44-549: The Santa Clara Aqueduct, giving it a very pleasing outlook. The urban and transportation development destroyed much of its beautiful natural areas, including the traditional picnic areas that the Poveiros loved to go on Easter Monday, which lead the population to choose other locations on Anjo festival. A festival that even holds the name of the place. The parish of Argivai contains two of the eleven city districts: The parish
55-436: The city of Póvoa de Varzim . In the census of 2001, it had a population of 2,187 inhabitants and a total area of 2.32 km . A 2012 law merged the parish with neighbouring Póvoa de Varzim (parish) and Beiriz , becoming the southern parish of the city of Póvoa de Varzim, with a population of 34,266 inhabitants and a total area of 11.88 km . The name of the parish is of Germanic origin, from Argivadi , despite that, it
66-409: The civil parish of Argivai. The civil parish was extinct and incorporated in the parish of Póvoa de Varzim in 1842, but it was recovered by 1853. In 2012, it merged again with the central parish and Beiriz to create a larger parish Póvoa de Varzim, Beiriz e Argivai. The parish of Argivai is today very small and enclosed between the parish of Póvoa de Varzim and the one of Vila do Conde. It is crossed by
77-516: The modern period it was an ecclesiastical parish in the county of Barcelos . Póvoa de Varzim itself, then Varazim, was a place in this ecclesiastical parish. And the first seat of the church of Argivai was located in Varzinha, which Pinho Leal argues is the modern Póvoa de Varzim. During the Middle Ages, Varzim was a fief with a large territory, including Argivai, extending from the coast to the hills and
88-535: The national production. The company needed new headquarters and planned a business park. The park started being built in 2003 and was inaugurated, on March 19, 2012, by the Portuguese Minister of Agriculture, Assunção Cristas and Braga archbishop , Jorge Ortiga. Argivai Argivai is an urban area in Póvoa de Varzim , Portugal . It is an ancient ecclesiastical parish and former civil parish located in
99-477: The park, by enlarging the rivulet banks and a building a small dam, thus creating a new lake that during construction immediately became a natural habitat for several species of migratory birds. The park is located in the woodlands and old farms known as Anjo , a traditional local Spring picnic area, part of the Anjo festival (Ivy festival) celebrations, at the outskirts of the city of Póvoa de Varzim. Significant part of
110-469: The picturesque rural landscaping. The park also preserves some of the rural ways that stretch to the woods, now used for walking and relaxation. Beyond Agros Headquarters building, the park also includes an auditorium and a sports and leisure park. Pre-existing ruins were recovered and planned to integrate a museum area, the Agros Museum. A small pre-existing water stream was used to improve landscaping of
121-486: The picturesque woods were destroyed when the then IC1 (now A28 motorway/freeway ) was constructed in the early 1990s, damaging even Castro culture ruins. Agros was the result of a 1949 joint venture by Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim farming and milk cooperatives, that later extended to other cooperatives and now groups milk producers from all Northern Portugal. It founded Lactogal with other two cooperatives and produced, in 2011 alone, 525 million liters of milk, 60% of
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