Machico
Machico
Parish of Machico, municipality of Machico, Madeira
The parish of Machico was the landing place of the discoverers Zargo and Tristão Vaz and the seat of the captaincy of Machico; the parish was founded c. 1450. The Elucidário covers its clergy and stipends, chapels, historical events, mineral springs, localities, population and notable natives.
1Mentioned in
- Caramanchão — Parish containing Caramanchão.
- Discovery of the archipelago — Beach where the first landing took place.
- Banda de Além — Parish and town in which Banda de Além lies.
- Pilgrimage festivals — Feast of Senhor dos Milagres with candle-lit eve procession.
- Machico (parish church) — Town and parish where the church stands.
- Old Buildings — Its church was cited by Neale.
- Artistic heritage — Its parish church holds a celebrated Adoration of the Magi.
- Preces — Parish in which the locality of Preces lies.
- Parishes — Captaincy seat whose parish was younger than Câmara de Lobos and Calheta.
- Machico (parish) — Subject parish, discoverers' landing place and captaincy seat.
- Desembarcadouro — The beach and bay east of which the Desembarcadouro lies.
- Christ (chapel) — Town where the chapel stands and where the discoverers landed.
- Machico quay — Town where the quay stands.
- St Christopher (chapels) — Parish of the first chapel.
- Nossa Senhora do Amparo (fort) — The fort stands beside the Machico promenade.
- Occupation of Madeira by the Miguelite troops — Bay where the Miguelist troops landed on 22 August 1828.
- St Roch (chapel) — A road leads from the town centre to the chapel, much used by summer visitors.
- Climate — White took temperature readings here in 1850.
- Donataries — Seat of the Machico captaincy.
- Donataries — Second captaincy of Madeira.
- Settlement and colonisation — Seat of a captaincy and early settlement; parish created 1450.
- Misericórdias — Town with its own Misericórdia.
- Levadas — Town served by a now-vanished sixteenth-century levada for sugar cane.
- Levadas — First-phase irrigation scheme site.
- Police — Also had a curfew bell beside its town hall.
- Abreu (Francisco Ferreira de) — Captaincy where Abreu served as orphans' judge.
- Terra do Baptista — Captaincy of Tristão Vaz.
- Silveira (António da) — The captaincy he held.
- Silveira (José Marciano da) — Where he taught primary school.
- Order of Christ — Town and captaincy also supplied with clergy by the Order.
- Largo dos Milagres — Town containing the square.
- Honorific forms of address — Its alcaide-mor, the Marquês de Valença, was addressed as excelência.
- Discovery of the archipelago — Subject of a dictionary article by Azevedo cited as a source.
- Historical dates — Captaincy granted 1440; bombarded 1828; election riots 1870.
- Hughes (T. M.) — Where Hughes spent three days investigating the Machim legend.
- System of weights and measures — Its bronze standard weight bears a 1499 inscription of King Manuel I.
- Our Lady of Grace (chapels) — Town with an old chapel rebuilt in 1750.
- Literature — Captaincy of the poet Tristão Teixeira.
- Towns — One of the first towns, seat of a captaincy.
- Santa Cruz (town and municipality) — Seat of the captaincy and rival town of Santa Cruz.
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2Chronology
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Prince Henry granted the captaincy of Machico to Tristão Vaz.
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The parish of Machico was created, with Frei João Garcia sent as its first vicar.
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D. Afonso V raised Funchal to the status of town, with Machico and Baleira (Porto Santo) probably made towns and municipalities about the same time.
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A royal charter created the customs houses of Funchal, Santa Cruz and Machico, the Funchal customs being the archipelago's oldest public office.
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Diogo de Arvelos settled in Machico.
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Gonçalo Pinto Alcoforado came to Madeira and settled in Machico.
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Probable foundation of the Misericórdia of Machico.
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Machico and Santa Cruz jointly received a foral with privileges, providing for a customs house.
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António da Silveira sold the captaincy of Machico, with royal authorisation, to D. Afonso de Portugal, Count of Vimioso.
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Mendo d'Ornelas e Vasconcelos married Helena Gomes at Machico.
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Philip II granted the captaincy of Machico to Tristão Vaz da Veiga.
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The captaincy of Machico was recovered by and passed to D. Luís de Portugal, Count of Vimioso.
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Matias de Mendonça e Vasconcelos erected a Rosary chapel in Machico.
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Captain Manuel Telo de Meneses founded a Desterro chapel at Ribeira Grande, Machico.
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The chapel of São Cristóvão at Caramanchão, Machico, was built by the children of Cristóvão Moniz de Meneses under his will. The date 1692 is carved on its portico.
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Francisco Dias Franco founded a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Amparo in Machico.