Monte
Monte · Funchal
parish of Monte, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
Parish of Nossa Senhora do Monte above Funchal, at about 600 m, where leafing occurs later than in Funchal. It contains the localities of Jardim Botânico, Igreja and Marmeleiros and the Quinta de Sant'Ana. The Elucidário notes its many plants, such as acacias and Sonchus fruticosus.
1Mentioned in
- Acacia — Area where Acacia dealbata is frequent and Albizzia lophantha is naturalised.
- Martius (C. Fred. Phil. de) — Where Martius recorded plant species.
- Jardim Botânico — Parish containing the Jardim Botânico locality.
- Tintureira (Rhamnus latifolia) — Its quintas preserve surviving trees.
- Henriques (Dr Júlio Augusto) — Visited by Henriques during his 1903 call.
- Igreja — Parish containing the locality.
- Rosmaninho — Santolina is cultivated in gardens here.
- Marmeleiros Hospital — The parish containing Marmeleiros.
- Oliveira (Dr João Francisco de) — Parish containing the Quinta de Sant'Ana.
- Nossa Senhora do Monte (parish) — The parish that is the subject of the entry.
- Phenological observations — Parish at about 600 m where leafing occurred later than in Funchal.
- Língua de vaca (Sonchus fruticosus) — Where the plant is frequent.
- Roads — On road 24.
- Menezesia — Where Menezesia setulosa was found.
- Oak mildew — Oak mildew was first observed on the oaks of Monte in 1909.
- Pilgrimage festivals — Main destination of vow-fulfilling pilgrims; feast on 15 August.
- Eucalyptus — One of the places where eucalyptus is common and site of the Rocha Machado quinta.
- Babosas — The parish in which Babosas lies.
- Teijeira (Arctium minus) — Locality where the plant grows.
- Leopoldina (Archduchess) — Area Leopoldina toured on 13 September 1817.
- Hortelã de burro (Cedronella triphylla) — Locality where the plant is frequent.
- Belgium (King of) — Visited by King Leopold.
- Coroa de Henrique (Agapanthus umbellatus) — Another area where the plant is much cultivated.
- Dragon tree (Dracaena draco) — Parish of the quinta where two admired dragon trees stood until they were uprooted.
- Incense tree (Pitiosporum undulatum) — Its quintas often have the tree.
- Page (Roberto) — Page built a bridge and fountains on its road.
- Monte Railway — Parish served by the railway.
- Transport (means of) — Hill resort, the 'Sintra of Madeira', reached by railway.
- Forest regime — Parish where a tree nursery was established in 1799.
- Wines — Mentioned in a quatrain as a destination for festivities and pilgrimages.
- Our Lady of the Peña de Francia (chapel) — Parish with a Penha de França chapel built in 1620.
- Ponta Delgada (parish) — Site of one of the three oldest pilgrimages.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — The only Funchal parish left outside the 1927 city limits.
- Funchal (judicial district) — Became a julgado of the Funchal comarca in 1927.
- Tenerife visitors — Where the visitors were offered tea.
- Mocano — Pittosporum coriaceum is cultivated in its quintas.
- Leste — Its pine woods burned during the 1919 leste.
- Madeira (island) — Suburb visited by tourists; church near the railway.
- Bombardment of Funchal — Refuge for residents fleeing the city.
- Town hall — Parish where the archive was kept from 1811 to 1818 for fear of an enemy landing.
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2Chronology
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A plant nursery known as the Jardim Botânico existed in Monte.
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Tristão Gomes de Castro founded the Prazeres chapel in Monte; he is also recorded as dying that year.
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Luís Gonçalves Mercador built a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França at Monte.
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Canon Jorge Furtado de Sousa founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Desterro at Monte.
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A chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was built in Monte.
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The Santo António chapel at Monte was erected.
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The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Monte was founded and endowed.
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A government tree nursery was established at the Lombada, Monte, its site chosen by José Maria de Afonseca and designated on 9 August 1799; it distributed over twenty thousand trees for replanting by 1823–24.
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For fear of an enemy landing, the Funchal council archive was moved to Santa Luzia and then to Monte.
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Leopoldina visited the Monte and was received at the Quinta do Belo Monte.
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Filipe José Nunes was born at Monte.
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The Monte toboggan cars appeared in their present form.
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An author writing in 1880 described penitent pilgrims carrying chains and crawling on their knees at Monte.
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Funchal council accepted António Joaquim Marques's proposal for a rack railway from Funchal to Monte.
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Funchal council allowed transfer of the Monte railway concession to Manuel Alexandre de Sousa.
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The old Fonte da Senhora at Monte was destroyed by the fall of a large chestnut tree.
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Jubilee festivities for the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception dogma were held in Madeira, with a procession from the cathedral to Monte.
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The Sanatoria Company received its first building materials from abroad for works at Monte.
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The Chapel-Monument of Our Lady of the Conception was built at Babosas, Monte, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception; the site thereafter became known as Conceição.
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Oak mildew (Oidium quercinum) was first observed in Madeira, on the oaks at Monte.