Ponta do Sol
Ponta do Sol
Town and municipality of Ponta do Sol, Madeira
Town and municipality of Ponta do Sol on Madeira, an early sugar-producing centre raised to a town in 1501. The Elucidário traces the changes in its municipal territory and its role as seat of a judicial district (comarca).
1Mentioned in
- St Sebastian (chapels) — Town whose municipal council owned and rebuilt a chapel of São Sebastião.
- Ponta do Sol quay — Town whose council paid for the quay.
- Ponta do Sol (headland, landing place and quay) — Town, seat of the municipality and judicial district, served by the port.
- Settlement and colonisation — Municipality granted the 1515 foral.
- Municipalities — Created town and municipality in 1501.
- Municipalities — Municipality created in 1501 from Funchal.
- Towns — Made a town and municipality in 1501.
- Tábua (parish) — Municipality to which Tábua belonged before 1914.
- Fiscal Organisation — Third-class fiscal municipality with a Fiscal Guard post.
- Passos Sousa (António Policarpo dos) — Where he died and served as municipal secretary.
- Materials for Madeiran History — Municipal archive reportedly worth consulting.
- Afforestation — Council urged to afforest in 1804.
- Ribeira Brava (municipality and town) — Municipality from which three parishes were taken.
- Arms — Municipality whose arms bear a sun.
- Headlands — Headland in Ponta do Sol municipality.
- Paul da Serra — One of four municipalities sharing the plateau.
- Deaneries — Municipality belonging to the Calheta archpriest district.
- Sugar-cane mills — Municipality with seven factories.
- By-laws — Its council printed its by-laws in 1900.
- Costa do Sul (southern coast) — Municipality on the south coast and a reference point for the coast's direction.
- Funchal – I. Origin of the name — One of the district's original ten municipalities.
- Administrative organisation — Municipality that lost three parishes to Ribeira Brava in 1914.
- Costa de Baixo — Municipality forming part of the Costa de Baixo.
- Serra de Água (parish) — Municipality to which the parish belonged from 1835.
- St Lazarus’s Hospital — Home municipality of many patients.
2Chronology
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By royal charter of D. Manuel I, Ponta do Sol was raised to the status of town and municipality.
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By royal charter Calheta was raised to a town and made a municipality, reducing the area of Ponta do Sol.
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The ruined and profaned chapel of São Sebastião at Ponta do Sol was rebuilt at the municipal council's expense and inspected for divine offices on 20 November 1734.
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A new administrative organisation gave Madeira ten municipalities, creating among others Câmara de Lobos, Santana (including Porto da Cruz, over Machico's protests), Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Calheta and a reorganised Ponta do Sol; Funchal's limits were fixed at the end of the year and the district head became Civil Governor.
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The Ponta do Sol quay was apparently completed.
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António Policarpo dos Passos Sousa died at Ponta do Sol.
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The Ponta do Sol municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
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A decree created the municipality of Ribeira Brava. Campanário was transferred to it from Câmara de Lobos and Tábua from Ponta do Sol.