Article Nº 2014 Street, square or road Funchal Vol. II · p. 423
Laranjeira (street)
Original title: Laranjeira (Rua da)
Former name of the part of Funchal's Rua do Carmo between the Carmo church and the Ribeirinho bridge, where a chapel of Santo António stood until 1836.
This was the part of the present Rua do Carmo (‘Carmel’) between the church of Carmo (Carmelite church) and the Ponte do Ribeirinho (‘little brook’), next to the Travessa do Rego.
The chapel of St Anthony of Padua (Santo António) stood in Rua da Laranjeira. Its founder and the year it was built are unknown, and the Council ordered its demolition on 5 February 1836.
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