Terra (Ventura)
Portuguese architect Ventura Terra, who drew up an improvement plan for Funchal delivered in 1915 and planned the Avenida Oeste.
A Portuguese architect who drew up the plan of improvements that the city of Funchal needs, in accordance with the council resolutions of 21 November 1912 and 3 February 1913. The Municipal Council (Câmara Municipal) and the Agricultural Board (Junta Agrícola) met the costs of this work, which the first of these bodies received on 19 November 1915, together with two copies, one of which was sent to the Agricultural Board.
It was the architect Ventura Terra, who died recently, who drew up the plan of the former Avenida Oeste, today Avenida do Dr Manuel de Arriaga. Among the improvements he proposed for the embellishment of the city was the construction of an avenue over the Ribeira de Santa Luzia. (1921)
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- Avenida Arriaga
Funchal. Avenue whose plan Terra drew up.
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.
- Funchal
City for which the improvement plan was made.
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.
- Ribeira de Santa Luzia
Funchal. Terra proposed an avenue over it.
The Ribeira de Santa Luzia is one of the three streams crossing Funchal, named after a chapel of Santa Luzia on its left bank. Its banks were probably the first land irrigated by levadas and had four sugar mills in the late 17th century. It feeds the Santa Luzia, Moinhos and D. Isabel levadas, and the Jesuits' Fundoa residence stood on its right bank.
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Portuguese architect who prepared Funchal's urban improvement plan and the plan of the Avenida Oeste.
- Manuel de Arriaga1841–1917
Namesake of the avenue formerly called Avenida Oeste.