Town Plans
Original title: Plantas da Cidade
An account of the maps and city plans of Funchal, from Skinner's small plan of 1775 and Vidal's plan of 1843 to the municipal survey completed in 1895 and its later reductions and derivatives.
Plans of Funchal
Captain Vidal’s Funchal Bay, published in 1843, shows the plan of Funchal at that time, and William Johnston’s map of Madeira, published in 1775, has attached to it a small-scale plan of the city surveyed by Captain Skinner. The first of these works served as the basis for all the charts of Funchal later published in various foreign works on Madeira.
On 2 April 1893 the Council opened a 60-day tender for the award by public auction (arrematação) of the work of surveying the city plan. The work was awarded to the Consultório de Engenharia, whose members included the engineers Carlos Roma Machado de Faria e Maia and Adriano Augusto Trigo. The plan was completed in 1895 and cost the municipality about 9 contos de réis (conto: one million réis), a sum that was finally paid off on 16 May of the same year.
The drawing boards of the city plan are kept in an iron safe bought by the Council for that purpose.
On 6 September 1897 the Council resolved to acquire, for 700,000 réis (old Portuguese money of account; 1$000 = 1,000 réis, 1:000$000 = one conto = 1,000,000 réis), a reduction of the said plan made by the engineer C. Roma e Maia. A copy of this reduction was sent shortly afterwards to the engineers of the District Public Works Department (Direção das Obras Públicas), who were then in charge of the studies for the city’s water supply and sewerage, while the original was filed in the relevant municipal department.
Other copies were later made of this reduced plan. One of them, or its original, served as the basis for the Guia Panoramico da Madeira, published some years ago by Dr Luís Rodrigues Gaspar and Francisco Bento de Gouveia, and for the Planta da cidade de Funchal contendo todos os melhoramentos realisados até 1911, drawn up by the engineers Adriano A. Trigo and Aníbal A. Trigo
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Time
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Captain Skinner drew a plan of Funchal, published by William Johnston with his map of Madeira.
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Captain Vidal's charts were published, including a chart of Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas and 'Funchal Bay' with a plan of the city.
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The Funchal council opened a 60-day tender for surveying the city plan.
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The municipal plan of Funchal was completed at a cost of about 9 contos de réis, with final payment made on 16 May.
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Funchal council resolved to buy a reduction of the city plan by C. Roma e Maia for 700$000 réis.
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A plan of Funchal showing improvements up to 1911 was drawn up by Adriano and Aníbal Trigo.
Place
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- Funchal
The city whose plans are the subject of the entry.
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.
People
People mentioned · 08- Adriano Augusto Trigob. 1862
Engineer who worked on the 1895 city plan and co-produced the 1911 plan of Funchal.
- Aníbal Augusto Trigo1865–1944
Engineer who co-produced the 1911 plan of Funchal with Adriano A. Trigo.
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Engineer of the Consultório de Engenharia who surveyed the 1895 city plan and made its reduction bought by the council in 1897.
- Francisco Bento de Gouveiab. 1874
Co-author of the Guia Panorâmico da Madeira.
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Co-author of the Guia Panorâmico da Madeira, based on the reduced city plan.
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Captain who surveyed the small plan of Funchal annexed to Johnston's 1775 map.
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Captain who published 'Funchal Bay' in 1843, containing the plan of Funchal that became the basis of later maps.
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Author of a 1775 map of Madeira with an attached small-scale plan of Funchal.