Person governor and captain-general of Madeira governor noble
D. Lourenço de Almada
d. 1729
governor and captain-general of Madeira · governor · noble
D. Lourenço de Almada was governor and captain-general of Madeira, appointed in 1687. In 1689 he built the Varadouros gate and rebuilt the chapel above it. He was later governor-general of Angola and of a Brazilian province, and he died in 1729.
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- Our Lady of the Slipways (chapel) — Governor and captain-general of Madeira (1688–90) who built the Varadouros gate and rebuilt the chapel above it in 1689.
2Chronology
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D. Lourenço de Almada was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
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D. Lourenço de Almada took office as governor and captain-general of Madeira, serving until 1690.
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The Funchal city walls were completed under the governor D. Lourenço de Almada, and the Varadouros chapel was rebuilt above the new Portão dos Varadouros.
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D. Lourenço de Almada died.
