Skip to content

Elucidário Madeirense

Place sítio/locality Porto Santo

Santa Catarina

Porto Santo

sítio in the municipality of Porto Santo

Approximate location, from a feature named after it

Main article St Catherine (chapel) Entry on the chapel of Santa Catarina in Funchal, founded by Constança Rodrigues de Almeida, wife of João Gonçalves Zarco, and regarded as the first church built on Madeira, together with its attached almshouse; it also notes other chapels of the same dedication in Porto Santo, Santa Cruz, Calheta and Ribeira Brava.

Santa Catarina is a locality on Porto Santo named after its old chapel of Santa Catarina.

Map: Porto Santo (1)

Map: Porto Santo (1)

1Mentioned in

St Catherine (chapel) — Locality named after the old chapel.

3Nearby