São Francisco (street)
Original title: São Francisco (Rua de)
Funchal street renamed in 1922 'Rua 22 de Março de 1921' after the Lisbon–Madeira flight of Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral; the author urges restoring the old name.
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The street runs from Rua da Carreira (‘track’), or Rua do Dr Vieira, to Avenida do Dr Manuel de Arriaga. At a session of the Funchal Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal do Funchal) on 6 July 1922 it received the somewhat vague name of ‘Rua 22 de Março de 1921’, because on that date the daring Portuguese aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral made their flight between Lisbon and Madeira.
It would be good to restore the street’s old name, since the public is not prepared to recognise any other, and the Council has already honoured the two aviators by giving their glorious names to two streets of this city (1921).
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Funchal
Rua de São Francisco is a Funchal street beside the municipal garden and the only one there that predates 1834. It was renamed 'Rua 22 de Março de 1921' in 1922, and the Elucidário urges restoring the old name. It lay on the route of the Procissão dos Passos, and the Blandy firm had its offices there for many years.
- Avenida Arriaga
Funchal. Avenue where the street ends.
An avenue in Funchal, planned by Ventura Terra, incorporating the former Terreiro da Sé and Praça Real. Zargo's statue was inaugurated there in 1934, and it was the original site of the João Fernandes Vieira monument. It was brilliantly illuminated for the quincentenary.
- Lisbon
Portugal. Departure point of the 1921 flight.
The Portuguese capital, seat of the Relação court and of the Misericórdia whose privileges and statutes were extended to Funchal. Henrique Franco de Sousa studied at its Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and Luiz José Baiardo moved there in 1821.
- Rua da Carreira
Funchal. Street where Rua de São Francisco begins.
Rua da Carreira, officially Rua do Dr. Vieira, is one of Funchal's oldest streets, a boundary of Sé parish, named after horse races once run there and the widest street of the town in 1508. It was home to noble families, chapels and the British cemetery, and housed the police building from 1934.
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Portuguese aviator whose 1921 Lisbon–Madeira flight gave the street its new name.
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Portuguese aviator, companion of Gago Coutinho on the 1921 flight.