Ribeira Brava
Ribeira Brava
parish and municipality of Ribeira Brava, Madeira
Ribeira Brava is one of Madeira's oldest parishes, named after its violent stream, with a town, port and quay. The Elucidário covers its collegiate church and its paintings, its Franciscan convent and chapels, and its São Pedro festival with a boat and sword dance. It also records riots against the metric system and deaths when troops fired on the people during the 1884 election.
1Mentioned in
- Sorghum (Andropogon Sorghum) — Where sorghum was grown for aguardente.
- Arriaga (Dr Manuel de) — Where troops fired on the people during the 1884 election, causing deaths.
- System of weights and measures — Scene of riots against the metric system.
- Our Lady of the Portiuncula (convent) — Parish where the Franciscan convent stood, a short distance from the parish church.
- Ribeira Brava (parish) — The violent stream that gave the parish its name.
- Great War — Landing place of the Chalkidom crew in 1917.
- Ribeira Brava (landing place and quay) — The town whose port and quay are described; the quay lies to its east.
- Jesuits — Parish whose tithes went to the Jesuits.
- St Catherine (chapel) — Parish that also had a hermitage of Santa Catarina.
- Pilgrimage festivals — São Pedro feast with offerings and fisherman's boat.
- Artistic heritage — Its parish church holds a triptych and other paintings.
- Castro (Dr José de) — Scene of the deadly events of 29 July 1884.
- Correia Henriques (José Anselmo) — Birthplace of the subject.
- Dragon tree (Dracaena draco) — Site of a surviving dragon tree.
- Parishes — Parish created about 1440.
- Agricultural Board — Site of the Junta's most successful plant nursery.
- Ribeira Brava quay — Town of the quay.
- São Bento da Ribeira Brava (fort) — Town the fort defended.
- Illustrious men — Birthplace of Gaspar Vilela.
- Heredia (family) — Parish where the Britos entail had its principal seat.
- Monte Gordo e Boa Morte — Parish containing the locality.
- Monte Medonho — Irrigated by the levada since 1908.
- Oudinot (Reinaldo) — Location of the chapel granted to Oudinot's widow.
- Camacho (Januário Vicente) — Parish where Camacho served as priest.
- Cholera morbus in 1856 and 1910 — Had a cholera hospital in both epidemics.
- Alvares — Where João Alvares lived in the late 15th century.
- Flash floods — Hit in 1803, 1856, 1920 and 1921.
- Settlement and colonisation — Early settlement site.
- Levadas — Site of a state-owned levada.
- Levadas — Parish irrigated by the Monte Medonho waters after 1908.
- Levadas — Partly supplied by the Levada do Monte Medonho.
- Levadas — Irrigated by the Lombo do Moiro levada.
- Unknown Soldier — Its band took part in the cortège.
- Apresentação — Parish containing the chapel site.
- Camacho (João Inocêncio) — Birthplace of João Inocêncio Camacho.
- Ribeira Brava (Viscount of) — Birthplace of the viscount and source of his title.
- Bettencourt — Parish where Henrique de Bettencourt held sesmaria lands and founded an entail.
- Municipal councils — Its alcaide and judge were appointed by the Funchal senate.
- Sport — Festivals featuring fencing and shooting were held there.
- Immaculate Conception (chapels) — Parish containing the sítio da Conceição chapel.
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2Chronology
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The parishes of Ribeira Brava and Caniço were reportedly created.
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João Alvares was living in Ribeira Brava.
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António Rodrigues Jardim founded a hermitage to the Souls in Purgatory in Ribeira Brava.
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A royal charter ordered protective walls to be built on the Ribeira Brava.
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Luís Gonçalves da Silva founded the São José chapel at Ribeira Brava.
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The date 1730 inscribed over the portico probably marks the building of the church of the Porciúncula convent at Ribeira Brava.
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Licence was granted to bless the São José chapel at Ribeira Brava.
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José Anselmo Correia Henriques was born in Ribeira Brava.
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José Ferreira Pestana was born at Ribeira Brava.
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The Funchal council heard that 9,233 trees had been planted in Ribeira Brava.
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Francisco Correia Heredia, later Viscount of Ribeira Brava, was born at Ribeira Brava.
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João Augusto Pereira was born in Ribeira Brava.
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António Romão dos Passos was born in Ribeira Brava.
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During election riots on the São Pedro festival day, troops fired on the people at Ribeira Brava, killing and wounding several; republicans, including José de Castro, were later prosecuted.
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The Junta Geral built the quay at Ribeira Brava between 1904 and 1908.
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The Monte Medonho levada was diverted to irrigate Ribeira Brava and Tábua instead of São Vicente.
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The road from Câmara de Lobos via Ribeira Brava to the Encumeada de São Vicente opened, making it reachable by car.
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The seat of the western school district moved from Ribeira Brava to Funchal.