Place sítio/locality Santo António Funchal
Santo Amaro
Santo António · Funchal
sítio in the parish of Santo António, municipality of Funchal, Madeira
Santo Amaro is a locality in the parish of Santo António, Funchal, where the oldest Santo Amaro chapel stands. The chapel was founded in the fifteenth century by Garcia Homem de Sousa, son-in-law of Zargo, whose estate this was and who built a fortified manor there to defend himself from his brothers-in-law. The quinta was charged with an oil bequest.
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- St Maurus (chapels) — Locality where the oldest Santo Amaro chapel stands.
- Sons and sons-in-law of Zarco — Estate and chapel of Garcia Homem de Sousa.
- Arco de São Jorge (parish) — Quinta charged with the oil bequest.
- Sousa (Garcia Homem de) — Site of the fortified manor he built to defend himself from his brothers-in-law.