Santana (municipality)
Original title: Santana (Município de)
The municipality of Santana on Madeira's north coast, created in 1835, briefly abolished in 1867 and losing Porto da Cruz to Machico in 1852.
The municipality (concelho) of Santana (‘St Anne’) has its seat in the parish (freguesia) of the same name and was established in 1835. The municipalities of Câmara de Lobos, Santa Cruz, Porto Moniz and Santana were abolished by the decree of 10 December 1867, but this measure was never fully implemented, because those municipalities were restored shortly afterwards. From its creation the municipality of Santana comprised the parishes of Arco de São Jorge, São Jorge, Santana, Faial, São Roque and Porto da Cruz. However, the parish of Porto da Cruz was detached from it by the decree of 19 October 1852, and this parish then became part of the municipality of Machico.
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A new administrative organisation gave Madeira ten municipalities, creating among others Câmara de Lobos, Santana (including Porto da Cruz, over Machico's protests), Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Calheta and a reorganised Ponta do Sol; Funchal's limits were fixed at the end of the year and the district head became Civil Governor.
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A decree transferred the parish of Porto da Cruz from Santana to the municipality of Machico and moved some Machico localities to Santa Cruz.
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A short-lived decree abolished the municipalities of Câmara de Lobos, Santa Cruz, Porto Moniz and Santana, merging Porto Moniz's parishes into São Vicente; they were soon restored.
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Seat of the municipality.
Municipality on Madeira's north coast, created in 1835. It lost Porto da Cruz to Machico in 1852 and was briefly abolished in 1867.
- Arco de São Jorge
Santana. Original parish of the municipality.
North-coast parish of the municipality of Santana, separated from São Jorge in 1676, over which the Pico do Arco de São Jorge (837 m) rises. It still had no cemetery in 1862 and became a julgado of the Funchal comarca in 1927. It is linked to Boaventura by a path across the Entrosa escarpment, and its forests were damaged in the 1919 fire.
- Câmara de Lobos
One of the municipalities abolished by the 1867 decree.
Câmara de Lobos is a municipality of Madeira whose seat was historically a 'lugar' rather than a vila. The Elucidário quotes Gaspar Frutuoso's description of it and outlines the creation of the concelho in 1835 and later changes to its parishes.
- Faial
Santana. Original parish of the municipality.
Faial is a north-coast parish of Santana municipality created in 1550, whose mountain springs feed the Levada da Serra. It contains Chícharos and the Diferença chapel, owns the eastern part of Pico Ruivo, and is noted for cheese-making and columnar basalt.
- Machico
Municipality that received Porto da Cruz in 1852.
Machico is a town and municipality of Madeira set in a valley. The Elucidário traces its municipal history from its probable creation around 1451, through the loss of territory to Santa Cruz, São Vicente and Santana. It also records its arms, its privileges and its new town hall of 1929.
- Porto da Cruz
Machico. Parish transferred from Santana to Machico in 1852.
North-coast parish created in 1577 and noted for good-quality wines. It was transferred from Santana to Machico municipality in 1852 and was the seat of a capitania-mor. It was also a fishing port where some sperm whales were landed.
- Porto Moniz
One of the municipalities abolished by the 1867 decree.
North-western parish and municipality with a quay and a tolerable port that serves as a good landing when southerly winds close the south coast. It has one of the oldest Magdalene chapels in northern Madeira, whose feast falls on 22 July. It was the birthplace of Dr Manuel Gomes Jardim.
- Santa Cruz
One of the municipalities abolished by the 1867 decree.
Santa Cruz is a town and municipality in eastern Madeira, raised to the status of vila in 1515 within the captaincy of Machico. The Elucidário covers its customs house, its Misericórdia, its rivalry with Machico and later changes to its boundaries.
- São Jorge
Santana. Original parish of the municipality.
North-coast parish that was an original parish of Santana municipality and gives its name to the northern archpriest district. It is known for plant-fossil and lignite deposits studied by Heer and Bunbury, and for a 17th-century landslide. The Elucidário also describes its islet, headland, quay and stream.
- São Roque do Faial
Santana. Original parish of the municipality.
Parish on Madeira's north coast, one of the original parishes of the municipality of Santana, separated from Faial in 1848 and named after a sixteenth-century chapel of São Roque. The Elucidário covers the chapel's founding, the new church of 1927, its first parish priests, its main localities, its school and its population.