Cadeia Velha (street)
Original title: Cadeia Velha (Rua da)
Funchal street linking Rua Direita with the small square of the Carmo church, named after the old city prison that stood at its corner. It contains the large early-18th-century house of the Oliveira family.
This is the street that runs directly from Rua Direita (‘straight street’) to the small square (largo) of the church of Carmo (Carmelite church); Rua dos Medinas and Rua do Monteiro lead into it. Its name comes from the old city gaol (cadeia) that once stood there, at the corner formed by this street and Rua Direita, on the right as one walks from the church of Carmo towards the latter street. In Rua da Cadeia Velha stands the house that belonged to the Oliveira family, whose members included João Francisco de Oliveira, Joaquim de Oliveira Alvares and Benjamim de Oliveira (see those entries), among others. Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara states that it was one of the largest town houses in Funchal, and its construction must date from the beginning of the 18th century.
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Places mentioned · 06- Rua da Cadeia Velha · Subject
Funchal
Funchal street linking Rua Direita with the small square of the Carmo church. It was named after the old city prison that stood at its south end, and it begins at Rua do Monteiro and bounds the Rua dos Medinas. In 1508 a huge til tree stood there, and the street contains the large early-18th-century house of the Oliveira family.
- Carmo church
Funchal. Church whose small square is the other end of the street.
The Igreja do Carmo is a church in Sé parish, Funchal, built after 1508, with an adjoining hospice where the Carmelites lived. It holds two Brandão family mausoleums and the grave of Governor D. Diogo Pereira Forjaz Coutinho, and the Procissão do Triunfo set out from it.
- Funchal
City where the street lies.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Rua Direita
Funchal. Street connected directly by Rua da Cadeia Velha.
An early Funchal street existing in 1508, on which the church of São Bartolomeu, an old customs house and the seminary's first house stood. D. Jerónimo Barreto lived there and Zenobio Acciaioly had a sugar mill there. It was hit by a shell in the 1916 bombardment.
- Rua do Monteiro
Funchal. Street giving access to Rua da Cadeia Velha.
Small Funchal street near the Santa Luzia stream, named after members of the Monteiro family who lived there, giving access to Rua da Cadeia Velha. It housed the Concórdia society's small theatre, and prostitutes caused scandals there in the 1830s.
- Rua dos Medinas
Funchal. Street giving access to Rua da Cadeia Velha.
Funchal street named after the Medina family who lived there, giving access to Rua da Cadeia Velha and faced by Rua do Monteiro. It was flooded in 1842, prostitutes settled there after the 1856 flood, and it faced the first premises of the Asilo de Mendicidade.
People
People mentioned · 04- Benjamim de Oliveirab. 1806
Member of the Oliveira family whose house stood in Rua da Cadeia Velha.
- Dr. João Francisco de Oliveira1761–1829
Member of the Oliveira family whose house stood in Rua da Cadeia Velha.
- Joaquim de Oliveira Álvares1776–1835
Member of the Oliveira family whose house stood in Rua da Cadeia Velha.
- Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara1810–1854
Author cited as stating the Oliveira house was among the largest urban buildings in Funchal.