Jardim Pequeno
A small public garden in Funchal, laid out in 1878 between the old Praça da Constituição and the grounds of the former Franciscan convent, and removed in 1914 to build the Avenida Oeste (now Avenida Dr. Manuel de Arriaga).
This was the name of a small garden laid out in 1878 between the old Praça da Constituição (‘Constitution Square’) and the convent grounds of the former convent of São Francisco, now the Jardim Municipal (‘municipal garden’). The garden, which had a few benches and fine vegetation, disappeared in 1914, when work began on the Avenida Oeste, now Avenida do Dr. Manuel de Arriaga.
On the site of the garden there was once a public fountain, whose water the governor Dom Álvaro da Costa de Macedo had diverted to the Fort of São Lourenço (St Lawrence). Before 1878 the same site was occupied by a square, around which stood a few trees. The Council requested the basins of the fountain from the administrator-general (administrador geral) in 1838, and they are at present in the Largo de São Sebastião, or Largo do Comércio.
When telegraphic communications with mainland Portugal were inaugurated in 1874, the old Largo de São Francisco was splendidly illuminated.
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The Funchal council requested the old fountain's basins from the Administrador Geral for the fountain of the Largo de São Sebastião.
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Public telegraph service between Madeira and mainland Portugal opened by submarine cable laid by the Brazilian Telegraph Company, with Sir William Thomson present; the inauguration was celebrated in Funchal with illuminations.
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On 21 February the Funchal council appointed a committee to lay out gardens on the São Francisco convent grounds, and the small garden was built that year.
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The Praça da Constituição and the Jardim Pequeno in Funchal disappeared when construction of the Avenida Oeste began.
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Funchal
Small public garden in Funchal, laid out in 1878 between the Praça da Constituição and the former Franciscan convent grounds, with a passo on its north side. It was removed in 1914 to build the Avenida Oeste (now Avenida Dr. Manuel de Arriaga).
- Avenida Doutor Manuel de Arriaga
Funchal. Its construction from 1914 caused the garden to disappear.
Avenida Dr. Manuel de Arriaga is an avenue in Funchal built from 1914. Its construction absorbed the Praça da Constituição and the Jardim Pequeno, and in 1917 the salient of the north bastion of the Fortaleza de São Lourenço was cut for its alignment. It was the original site of the Conde de Canavial's bust, opposite the cathedral, and the scene of the Unknown Soldier ceremonies.
- Convent of St Francis
Funchal. The garden bordered the grounds of this extinct convent.
The Convento de São Francisco was a Franciscan convent in Funchal founded in 1473, which marked the western limit of the city in 1508. Its church was demolished in 1865, and its fittings, books, tombstones and bones went to the Angústias cemetery, the museum and the Municipal Library. Its buildings briefly lodged prisoners until 1836 and housed the police in 1857.
- Fortress of São Lourenço
Funchal. Water from the old fountain was diverted to this fortress.
The São Lourenço fortress in Funchal was begun as a simple bastion under the fourth and fifth captains-donatary and completed by the reign of D. Sebastião; its main entrance faces the Largo da Restauração. It later served as a palace and housed the Funchal meteorological station, and the republican flag was raised there on 6 and 7 October 1910. The Elucidário also records its heraldic emblems, a 1635 inscription, an old chapel of São Lourenço and the loss of its statue of the saint in 1911.
- Jardim Municipal
Funchal. Public garden now occupying the former convent grounds.
The Jardim Municipal is Funchal's public garden, laid out from 1880 on the grounds of the former Franciscan convent in the parish of São Pedro. It is bounded by Rua do Conselheiro to the west and Rua Hermenegildo Capelo to the south, and stands next to the Scottish church. It holds the monument to the first Lisbon–Madeira aviators and the bust of João Fernandes Vieira, and it was hit in both bombardments of Funchal.
- Largo de São Francisco
Funchal. Site of illuminations celebrating the 1874 telegraph link.
Site of illuminations celebrating the 1874 telegraph link.
- Largo de São Sebastião
Funchal. Present location of the old fountain's basins.
Square in Funchal, formerly part of the Campo do Duque, and the site of one of the island's first chapels. It housed premises of the Clube União and is the present location of the basins of the old Jardim Pequeno fountain.
- Praça da Constituição
Funchal. The garden lay beside this former square.
The Praça da Constituição was a former square in Funchal, earlier called Passeio Público, named after the liberal constitution proclaimed there on 28 January 1821. It was called Praça Real under D. Miguel, became Praça da República in 1911, and disappeared in 1914 when the Avenida Oeste was built. It adjoined the Municipal Garden and was a terminus of the tramway.
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Governor of Madeira who had the waters of a fountain on the garden's site diverted to the São Lourenço fortress.
- Manuel de Arriaga1841–1917
The Avenida Oeste, whose construction destroyed the garden, was later named after him.