Saúde (street)
Original title: Saúde (Rua da)
Street in Funchal, the former name, before 1838, of the Entrada da Cidade. Works on the Saúde gate and street were authorised in 1838 and begun in 1839. The name survives in the rua and calçada da Saúde, called after a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Saúde.
This was the name, before 1838, of the old Entrada da Cidade (‘entrance to the city’). On 12 January 1838 the Ministry of Finance issued a ministerial order (portaria) authorising the Council to carry out works on the Saúde gate and street. It was to use part of the land belonging to the São Lourenço Palace (‘St Lawrence’) and to demolish the wall that enclosed that land on the east side, as well as the gate itself.
Only on 8 February 1839 did the Council have the construction of the Entrada da Cidade put out to tender. The contract for the works was awarded on the 22nd of the same month and year, and building began shortly afterwards.
The public roads between Rua dos Álamos (‘poplars’) and the former Rua do Príncipe are known today as Rua da Saúde and Calçada da Saúde, because a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Saúde (Our Lady of Health) stands there.
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Funchal
The Rua da Saúde is a street in Funchal, and before 1838 its name was used for what became the Entrada da Cidade. Works on the Saúde gate and street were authorised in 1838 and begun in 1839. The name, taken from the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Saúde that stands on it, survives in the rua and calçada da Saúde, which are linked by the Rua das Mercês.
- Chapel of Our Lady of Health
Funchal. The chapel that gave the street its name.
The Capela de Nossa Senhora da Saúde is a chapel on Rua da Saúde in São Pedro, Funchal, founded in 1659 and no longer used for worship. It gave the street its name.
- Entrada da Cidade
Funchal. The later name of the former rua da Saúde.
The Entrada da Cidade was the seafront street in Funchal that served as the main entrance to the city for arrivals by sea. It was built around 1839 on the site of the former Porto da Saúde and renamed Avenida João Gonçalves Zarco in 1910. Its quay saw the 1894 cholera landing riot, and the first stone of the Zarco statue was blessed in front of it.
- Rua do Príncipe
Funchal. The other end of the present rua and calçada da Saúde.
Rua do Príncipe was the former name of a Funchal street running alongside the Ribeira de Santa Luzia, from the Calçada do Cidrão to the Rua dos Netos. It was renamed Rua 5 de Outubro after the proclamation of the Republic. The name probably honoured the Prince Regent D. João VI, though no municipal record confirms this; the street lay at the other end of the present rua and calçada da Saúde.
- Rua dos Álamos
Funchal. One end of the present rua and calçada da Saúde.
One end of the present rua and calçada da Saúde.
- São Lourenço Palace
Funchal. Part of its grounds was used for the 1838 works on the street.
The Palácio de São Lourenço, the governors' palace-fortress in Funchal, was the scene of beija-mão ceremonies, receptions, balls and dinners, and of the 1861 exhibition. The Elucidário records a great fire there in 1699, a natural history museum in 1850, and an attempt by soldiers to enter it in 1829. The Teatro Grande stood opposite it.