Article Nº 1491 Politician Vol. II · p. 78
Fontes Pereira de Melo (António Maria de)
Brief note on the Portuguese statesman Fontes Pereira de Melo's stay in Madeira in September 1858, when as a lieutenant of engineers he visited the works on the Rabaçal levada.
This notable Portuguese statesman was in Madeira in 1858. He arrived here on 10 September aboard the brig Mariana and left for Cape Verde on the same ship on the 26th.
Fontes Pereira de Melo, who was then a lieutenant of engineers, visited the works on the Rabaçal levada (irrigation channel).
People mentioned
- Fontes Pereira de Melo d. 1887
Places mentioned