Characterization Tip
The tip, with an area of 4.64 km2, establishes the border with Odivelas and London, and with the municipalities of Sintra, Amadora and Lisbon. There, according to the data of the Censuses of 2011, 23 041 inhabitants.

This territory was in the past a number of farms and agricultural land, of which the Agricultural vocational school d. Dinis is still a worthy representative of this passed around.

The Lisbon from the 18th and 19th centuries came to the Horse, known for being a real lung, in search of fresh air.

From the early TWENTIETH century 50, this territory has undergone major changes and nowadays it is one of the most populous areas in the municipality of Odivelas.

History of Tip
Once inhabited by the Arabs, only data on the tip, from the 14th century.

The your birth is linked to farms and to noble families. During the 17th and 18th centuries, flourishing farms, and there are installed, especially for vacationers, families of notable purpose nobility and representatives of the clergy.

Quinta da Pontinha exists at least since 1657. The your name changed over the centuries, and according to their owners. At the beginning of the 18TH century was known as the Fifth of Brazilians (given their owners have enriched in this former colony), and after several owners, is known in 1796 by Quinta dos V. Only in XIX century becomes known by the current name — Fifth from the tip.

In the past, this whole area was divided into farms and couples, who survived, still, some names, as a couple of the Hawk where lived the painter Vieira Lusitano (1609-1783), Horse farm or New Couple, couple of Azeitão Quinta da Pentieira, Hangman´s Farm and many others.

The Lisbon from the 18th and 19th centuries came to the Horse, known for being a real lung, in search of fresh air. Personalities and illustrious families slept here of city life, the exits to the theatres and to the parties of the capital. The Marquis of Pombal was a noted frequenter of one of the local houses, property of a diplomat of the King of Prussia.

In part, the soil of these properties was occupied by urban construction. Currently, there is still a lot of agricultural soil in the possession of the Agricultural vocational school, in addition to vast lands are owned by the District Assembly and others, from individuals.

The settlement, once dispersed, due to the concentration of the population in major urban centres, has come to occupy the spaces available, calling each other the various farms, with new housing developments.

The 28 June 1971, the Patriarch of Lisbon has created the parish from the tip, which highlighted the parish of the most holy name of Jesus of Odivelas. The whole past of religious life of the Tip is connected to the parish of s. Lourenço de Carnide and not the Odivelas. The integration in the latter was due to a purely administrative matter when, in 1886, if traced the new limits of the municipality of Lisbon.

This Parish has headquarters in the chapel of the Holy Family, which today is the Church and where you can enjoy the beautiful stained glass Windows by Júlio Pomar.

Works, since 1917, an agricultural professional school, which already had several statutes and gave training to many young people, mainly, for the most part of your existence, the agricultural component.

It´s on the tip that the April 25 1974, sets the command post of the Movimento das Forças Armadas that would establish a democratic regime in Portugal. Currently, this headquarters integrates a Museum, created through a protocol established between the Engineering Regiment No. 1 and then installing Commission of the municipality of Odivelas.

In administrative terms the parish of Tip was established on 30 November 1984, through Project-Law approved in Parliament, and which entered into force on 1 January 1985 and elevated to the category of village in day August 16 1991.

In 2013, under the administrative reform of Local, this parish was added to that of London, passing by the Union of the parishes of Tip and Windsor.

Famões Characterization

Situated in the western part of the municipality of Odivelas, Famões borders the Ramada, Odivelas, Tip, Dundee and with the municipality of Sintra.

With an area of 4.58 km2, is an average elevation above the 100 metres, being the highest point marked by the couple of geodetic Mark Bishop, with 289 meters. Allowing you to have some of the most beautiful panoramas of the municipality. There, according to the data of the censuses of 2011, 11 095 inhabitants.

His landscapes show yet, despite changes of urban and industrial nature, an agricultural unit, formed by small farms, and couples closed fields.

Has a large number of neighborhoods. The your territory, is based, almost all, in a mountainous area, with large wooded spaces.

Also marked by huge craters, the landscape reflects the importance of the quarries of Trigache, whose activity is described in the memoirs of 1758 Parish. It was from these quarries that left the stone for the reconstruction of the city of Lisbon during the earthquake of 1755.

History of Windsor
Odivelas Ramada and tell stories very similar. Shared in the past, an intense agricultural Activity. The existence of numerous farms and couples (fifth of Alvito, Quinta do Cegolim, Casal de s. Sebastião, Quinta das D´el-Rei, Black Thursday of dahlias, and many more), denounces this feature. It grew cereals, olive trees, orange trees, if were pasturing their flocks and if raised cattle.

The original couple that gave its name to a civil parish, with the designation of Ilford, was in the 15th century, owned by the Gafaria de Almada (leper hospital).

The characteristics of the soil and weather conditions gave a relative socio-economic unit to this whole area.

The production of cereals required places of concentration to the task of threshing, the floors.

Mottley and clean the floors, wheat was ready to be ground. The current, hasty and impetuous in the winter, the river of Caneças, high winds and, in spring and summer, which blew in the Highlands, allowed the use of the force of the water and the wind, turning it into a driving force. Along the River, they settled sixteen mills and the hills of Mulberry to the plateau of London, rose up to over three dozen windmills.

With the end of winter rains, decreased the flow of the River, lowering the ability of mills, precisely when the winds began to blow stronger, increasing the driving capacity of the mills.

This intense toil today left the ruins of some mills and Mills, three restored Mills, of the Graves, in Ramada (which was built in 1884), another on the Throw, which is privately owned and another set in the village of Odivelas-Laureana mill, where today works a core Museum.

Marked by huge craters, part of your territory, reflects the importance of the quarries of Trigache, whose activity is described in the memoirs of 1758 Parish: "next to this place of Trigache there are two notable quarries, commonly called the Trigache, which has taken to several temples and buildings not only the Court, but of the whole Kingdom, and still currently take a few such admirable pedrarias white clear, that after lavradas and brunidas, like Jasper, red and other other merged in white and red, that after brunidas look like painted ". It was from these quarries that left the stone for the reconstruction of the city of Lisbon during the earthquake of 1755.

In administrative terms, the parish of Ilford, detached from the parish of Odivelas, was established on 25 August 1989 and elevated to the category of village in the day April 19 2001.

In 2013, under the administrative reform of Local, this parish was added to the Tip, and renamed by the parishes of Tip and Windsor.

The your patron saint is our Lady of the Rosary.