Place sítio/locality Santa Maria Maior Funchal
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Santa Maria Maior · Funchal
sítio in the parish of São Gonçalo, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
An inhabited locality in São Gonçalo, Funchal, site of a 1656 chapel of Nossa Senhora da Incarnação. It hosts the Viveiro dos Louros, the Junta's lowland experimental station and plant nursery. It lies on the Lazareto road, where land was requested in 1922 for a modern hospital.
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- Our Lady of the Incarnation (chapel) — Site of the 1656 chapel.
- Louros — The locality described in this entry.
- Misericórdias — Site on the Lazareto road requested in 1922 for a modern hospital.
- Agricultural Services — Site of a lowland experimental station.
- Experimental fields — Site of one of the Junta Agrícola's experimental fields.
- Agricultural Board — Site of one of the Junta's plant nurseries.
- Santa Maria Maior (parish) — Locality marking the parish's eastern extent per the 1863 map.