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The strategic and privileged situation and the banks of the rich estuary of Mondego river led throughout history the fixing of numerous civilizations in the lands that would be the Figueira da Foz. 

The origins of the territory occupation dating back to prehistory, but the Romans bequeathed traces of their presence, from which one can highlight the entries in two denarii - Vibia a family, another of the emperor Octavian Mayus.

The Saracens just know that razed the town in 717. It was the Earl Sesnando, Mozarabic natural Tentúgal, who led the Christian reconquest. The monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra aware of the strategic position of the town as a seaport, begins in the century. XI settlement lands.

In the centuries that followed the successive kings were granting privileges to the church, including the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra (half the land of Redondo, Lavos, and Quiaios, by the will of D. Afonso Henriques, half of sea salt in Casseira for selling D. Sesnando), the church of Santa Maria de Coimbra (Tavarede the village, by donation of D. Sancho I), thereby extending the territory of Figueira da Foz.

Fitted in the thirteenth century the Cathedral of Coimbra attributes in a letter Bar, the farms and hills of Tamarisk, Domingos Ioanes Martin, and Martin Miguel Gonçalves. Since then, the population has been growing steadily.

Already in the fourteenth century, in 1342, King Afonso IV donates Foral to Buarcos. In 1362 Pedro gives the order to Mitra and Chapter of the Cathedral of Coimbra so that it can appoint in their hunting grounds of Tavarede and place of Figueira, administrative employees, and notaries necessary for the proper functioning of the conduct of its people.
In the fifteenth century, in 1456, depart caravels Buarcos Ceuta path and ten years later Prince John (II) receives from his father, King Afonso V, the land of Buarcos, with civil jurisdiction and crime.

During the sixteenth century, the population is plagued by constant pirate attacks. The construction of the Santa Catarina Fortress for the defense zone was then that was necessary.
Pirate attacks would again be felt in the seventeenth century and the Figueira da Foz and Buarcos been looted desecrated the church and the fort of Santa Catarina busy.

The importance acquired by the populated Figueira da Foz leads El King Joseph, to grant him by decree of 12 May 1771, the category of Villa. In 1773, begins the exploitation of Cabo Mondego mine, called at the time, Muzzle mine Figueira and come the way of the railroad and Pampilhosa-Figueira road.
In 1807, the Fort of Santa Catarina is occupied by a garrison belonging to Junot's army, which would come to dominate the entire region between Coimbra and Figueira da Foz.

A year later ends with the conquest of Fort Santa Catarina by group volunteers led by academic António Bernardo Zagalo, the domain of the region, by the Napoleonic forces. The army of Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, landed in the same year, in May 1808, about three thousand men in the Mondego bay.
At the beginning of the century. XIX, the great dynamic and wealth produced by the port and the development of shipbuilding, do the people of Figueira da Foz nearly double. At the end of the century, the city acquires a new economic impetus, motivated by the coming of the aristocracy, which begins to give up swimming in the clear waters of the golden sandy beaches in Figueira Coast Foz. Also, the well-heeled Spaniards begin to come to Figueira da Foz leave their pesetas at the casino. The May 20, 1882 Figueira da Foz was elevated to city status.