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{{Infobox Portuguese subdivision
| type            = municipality
| official_name   = Carregal do Sal
| image_flag      = Pt-crs1.png
| flag_border     = no
| image_shield    = CRS.png
| image_skyline   = 
| image_caption   = 
|coordinates             = {{coord|40|26|N|8|00|W|type:adm1st_region:PT_dim:100000|display=inline,title}}
| image_map       = LocalCarregalDoSal.svg
|region             = [[Centro Region, Portugal|Centro]]
|CIM                = [[Viseu Dão Lafões]]
|district           = [[Viseu District|Viseu]]
|parishes           = [[#Parishes|5]]
| leader_party            = [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|PS]]
| leader_name             = [[Rogério Abrantes]]
| area_total_km2          = 116.89
| population_total        = 9,835
| population_as_of        = 2011
| holiday = 2nd Monday after the 3rd Sunday of July
| website                 = {{website|http://www.carregal-digital.pt}}
}}
'''Carregal do Sal''' ({{IPA|pt-PT|kɐʁɨˈɣal du ˈsal|-|Pt-pt Carregal do Sal FF.ogg}}) is a [[List of Portuguese municipalities|municipality]] in [[Viseu District]] in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,835,<ref>[http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xlang=en&xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0005889&contexto=pi&selTab=tab0 Instituto Nacional de Estatística] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115205227/http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xlang=en&xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0005889&contexto=pi&selTab=tab0 |date=November 15, 2016 }}</ref> in an area of 116.89&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=dgt>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dgterritorio.pt/cartografia_e_geodesia/cartografia/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal_caop_/caop__download_/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal___versao_2017__em_vigor_/ |title=Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país |access-date=2018-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105172426/http://www.dgterritorio.pt/cartografia_e_geodesia/cartografia/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal_caop_/caop__download_/carta_administrativa_oficial_de_portugal___versao_2017__em_vigor_/ |archive-date=2018-11-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The present mayor is Atílio dos Santos Nunes, elected by the [[Social Democratic Party (Portugal)|Social Democratic Party]]. The municipal holiday is the second Monday after the third Sunday of July.

==Parishes==
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (''[[freguesia (Portugal)|freguesias]]''):<ref>{{cite web|title=Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 33|url=http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2013/01/01901/0000200147.pdf |accessdate=20 July 2014|author=Diário da República|author-link=Diário da República|language=Portuguese|format=pdf}}</ref>
* Beijós
* [[Cabanas de Viriato]]
* Currelos, Papízios e Sobral
* Oliveira do Conde
* Parada

==History==

The 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” ([[English language|English]]: ''of salt'') after the big salt evaporation ponds constructed there by order of Francisco Lucas de Melo Pais do Amaral (7 May 1752 – 6 April 1819), of Casa de Santar (Melo Pais do Amaral, and after Count of Santar).

Taking advantage of the location by the road, by then the major land connection between Viseu and Coimbra districts, Francisco Lucas de Melo Pais do Amaral therefore ordered the building of huge salt evaporation ponds in some lands he had inherited, which could supply the entire region. This business was kept in the hands of its descendants (Soares de Albergaria Pais e Melo) over almost 200 years, and consisted of collecting the salt from [[Figueira da Foz]], transporting it by boat through [[Mondego River|Mondego]] and [[Dão River|Dão]] rivers, up to Carregal, then laid in big warehouses, in the place named "Salinas" ([[English language|English]]: ''[[salt evaporation ponds]]'') 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.

== Notable people ==
* [[Aristides de Sousa Mendes]] (1885 in Cabanas de Viriato – 1954), the Portuguese consul-general in Bordeaux, defied the orders of António de Oliveira Salazar's [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]] regime by issuing thousands of visas to refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied France; although punished for his actions, he was posthumously redeemed and commemorated, and a museum in his honor was inaugurated on July 19th, 2024, in his hometown.
* [[Dina (singer)|Ondina Maria Farias Veloso]] (1956–2019) a singer, known as [[Dina (singer)|Dina]], sang in the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1992]] 
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.carregal-digital.pt/ Town Hall official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319123413/http://www.carregal-digital.pt/ |date=2020-03-19 }}
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitor107/sets/72057594053250681/ Photos from Carregal do Sal]

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[[Category:Populated places in Viseu District]]
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[[Category:People from Carregal do Sal]]

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