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Caminho do Monte

Caminho do Monte

Monte · Funchal

Road to Monte, municipality of Funchal, Madeira

32°40′12″ N16°54′15″ W Google Maps

Road leading from Funchal up to Monte, opened on its present route in the early 19th century. The Elucidário records it as the route by which penitential processions returned to the Monte church, as bordering several sanatorium properties, and as the road at whose start stood the former seminary where the Coimbra University tuna lodged.

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2Chronology

  1. The Caminho do Monte was opened to the public on its present route.

  2. The image of Nossa Senhora do Monte was carried in what was believed to be Funchal's last rigorous penitential procession, held to pray for rain during a drought.

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