Rua do Ribeirinho de Baixo is a street in Funchal bounding the Rua dos Medinas. It formerly housed schools, and prostitutes settled there after the 1856 flood.
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Prostitution — Street where prostitutes settled after the 1856 flood; formerly housed schools.
The Lancasterian School was founded in Funchal, briefly housed in Rua do Ribeirinho de Baixo.
5 January 1856–6 January 1856
Floods damaged Funchal and western parishes; afterwards Rua dos Medinas declined socially and prostitutes settled there and in Rua do Ribeirinho de Baixo.
