Place sítio/locality São Pedro Funchal
Santa Catarina
São Pedro · Funchal
sítio in the parish of São Pedro, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
Approximate location
Santa Catarina is a height in São Pedro parish, west of Funchal, where Zarco made his first settlement and wooden dwelling. Its fields were named with Caniçal as the best royal hunting grounds, and the Hospital de São Lázaro stood there.
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- São Pedro (parish) — Height where Zargo made his first settlement.
- Customs houses — Where the discoverer lived.
- Municipal Slaughterhouse — Area of the meat market in 1488.
- Caniçal (parish) — Fields named alongside Caniçal as royal hunting grounds.
- Early dwellings — Site of Zargo's first wooden dwelling.
- Freitas — Locality named after Catarina de Freitas's entailed land.
- Teixeira — Fields named with Caniçal as the best hunting grounds.
- St Lazarus’s Hospital — Site west of Funchal where the hospital stood.
- Early dwellings — Height where Zargo had his first wooden dwelling.