Place street/square Santa Maria Maior Funchal
Rua do Hospital Velho
Santa Maria Maior · Funchal
Street in the parish of Santa Maria Maior, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
One of Funchal's oldest streets, running from the Praça dos Lavradores and named after the Santa Isabel hospital that long stood there; it was formerly Rua de Diogo Afonso and Rua de Santo António. It was destroyed in the 1803 flood and bounds the site of the Mercado União.
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- Misericórdias — Street named after the old hospital site.
- Flash floods — Street destroyed in 1803; site of the old parish church damaged in 1611.
- Lavradores (Largo or Praça dos) — Street reached from the square.
- União Market — Street bounding the new market site.
- Old Funchal — Site of a small hospital in 1508 and northern limit of the city.
- Markets — Street bordering a site first considered for the market.
- Magi (chapel) — Street housing the old Misericórdia hospital, later called Rua de Santo António.