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Article Nº 2113 Locality (sítio) Calheta Vol. II · p. 534

Lombo dos Reis

Inhabited locality in the parish of Estreito da Calheta, notable for the chapel of the Reis Magos founded around 1529 by Francisco Homem de Gouveia as the seat of his entail, and for a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento built in 1860.

Map: Arquipélago da Madeira (5)

An inhabited locality (sítio) in the parish (freguesia) of Estreito da Calheta (‘the narrows of Calheta’). Here stands the Chapel of the Magi (Reis Magos), founded around 1529 by Francisco Homem de Gouveia, who made it the seat of the entailed estate (morgadio) he established; the estate was later incorporated into the house of the donataries of the island of Porto Santo (‘holy harbour’). In the same locality is the chapel of Our Lady of Deliverance (Nossa Senhora do Livramento), built by Dona Inácia Betencourt Perestrelo in 1860.

Chronology
  • Francisco Homem de Gouveia and his wife Isabel Afonso founded the Reis Magos entail at Estreito da Calheta, with the chapel of the Reis Magos at Lombo dos Reis as its seat.
  • D. Inácia Betencourt Perestrelo built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Lombo dos Reis.
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