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Chapel of the Magi

Chapel of the Magi

Capela dos Reis Magos

Estreito da Calheta · Calheta

Lombo dos Reis, parish of Estreito da Calheta, municipality of Calheta, Madeira

32°44′05″ N17°11′00″ W Google Maps

Main article Magi (chapel) Describes two old chapels dedicated to the Three Kings (Reis Magos): one at Lombo dos Reis in Estreito da Calheta, founded around 1529 as the seat of an entailed estate, and one in Ponta Delgada that belonged to the Carvalhal family.

This Capela dos Reis Magos was founded around 1529 at Lombo dos Reis by Francisco Homem de Gouveia as the seat of an entailed estate, and its founders are buried there. It is classified as of public interest and holds a sixteenth-century carved Adoration of the Magi.

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2Chronology

  1. Francisco Homem de Gouveia and his wife Isabel Afonso founded the Reis Magos entail at Estreito da Calheta, with the chapel of the Reis Magos at Lombo dos Reis as its seat.

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