Barcelos (Pico dos)
Original title: Barcelos. (Pico dos)
Inhabited locality and small hill in Santo António parish, Funchal, famous as a viewpoint over the bay from Garajau to Cabo Girão. The name probably comes from the early settler Diogo Barcelos.
An inhabited locality (sítio) in the parish (freguesia) of Santo António, Funchal. On it stands a small hill known by the same name, which is today an obligatory attraction for every tourist visiting Madeira. The land stretching far from Ponta do Garajau (‘tern point’) to Cabo Girão forms a vast semicircle, and at the centre of its diameter rises the eminence of Pico dos Barcelos (‘the Barcelos’ peak’). From this point one of the most attractive and beautiful panoramas that could perhaps be offered to the eyes of any visitor can be enjoyed. The road leading there, built in 1917, makes the spot easy to reach, and it is frequented almost at all hours by countless visitors, Portuguese and foreign. It seems that this locality took its name from Diogo Barcelos, one of the early settlers, who owned several tracts of land in the area.
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Funchal
Inhabited locality and small hill in Santo António parish, famous as a viewpoint over the bay from Garajau to Cabo Girão. Its name probably comes from the early settler Diogo Barcelos.
- Cabo Girão
Câmara de Lobos. Western end of the semicircle of land viewed from the hill.
Sheer sea cliff about 600 m high (listed at 589 m) and a recommended viewpoint. Its cliffs contain dykes, and it is one of only two places where C. dissectum grows. A rockfall from it killed Henrique Alemão in his boat.
- Ponta do Garajau
Santa Cruz. Eastern end of the semicircle of land viewed from the hill.
A headland 126 m high marking the eastern limit of the bay of Funchal, on which the statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stands above the sea. It was a boundary of the Ornelas land grant, and the 100-fathom line lies only half a mile offshore there.
- Santo António
Funchal. Parish containing Pico dos Barcelos.
Santo António is a parish in the municipality of Funchal, Madeira, where the São João stream rises and the Jesuits had their Pico do Cardo residence. Its church bears a 1783 Latin inscription, and the parish contains the Madalena, São João e Santana and Pópulo chapels; it also gives its name to a hill of about 400 metres near its church.
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One of the first settlers of Madeira, who owned land here and probably gave the site its name.