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Article Nº 0211 Locality (sítio) Calheta Vol. I · p. 126

Amoreiras

A locality in Arco da Calheta with a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição founded in 1911, on the site of an early sixteenth-century chapel.

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A locality (sítio) in the parish (freguesia) of Arco da Calheta (‘arc of Calheta’), where stands the chapel of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Nossa Senhora da Conceição), founded in 1911 by Father José Marcelino de Freitas. On the same spot there once stood a chapel of the same dedication, built at the behest of Isabel de Abreu in the early 16th century.

Chronology
  • D. Isabel de Abreu had the first chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição built at Amoreiras, Arco da Calheta.
  • Padre José Marcelino de Freitas founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Amoreiras, Arco da Calheta.
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