São Vicente
São Vicente
parish and municipality of São Vicente, north coast of Madeira
São Vicente is described as the largest and most populous parish of northern Madeira and the seat of the only town on the north coast. The Elucidário covers its settlement, church history, localities and landscape, and the deadly landslide of 1929.
1Mentioned in
- Tokens — Parish where the Drummond zinc tokens circulated.
- Galeão (shoal) — Harbour to the east of which the Baixa do Galeão lies.
- Pilgrimage festivals — Pilgrimage valued for its countryside setting.
- Statutes — Parish of the confraternity of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, charter 1902.
- Rice — Parish where a mainland cultivator successfully trialled rice in 1918.
- St Vincent (chapel) — Town on whose stream mouth the chapel stands.
- São Vicente (parish) — Subject of the entry.
- Monte Medonho — Parish containing the site, formerly irrigated by the levada.
- Câmara de Lobos (municipality) — One of the former lugares of Madeira.
- Legends — Parish of the islet legend of São Vicente.
- Cholera morbus in 1856 and 1910 — Recorded 307 deaths in 1856.
- Fajã da Areia (landing place) — Nearby town whose port is judged inferior.
- Flash floods — Damaged in 1895 and 1920.
- Sarmento (Alberto Artur) — Town and parish studied in one of his works.
- Geology — Marine fossils at 360 m and limestone worked for lime.
- Levadas — Site of a state-owned levada.
- Levadas — Parish served by the state levadas.
- Levadas — Irrigated by the Levada do Caramujo.
- Levadas — Now receives the Levada do Caramujo water.
- Pau branco (Notelaea excelsa) — Upland area where the pau branco tree is found.
- Meadows — Genista madeirensis grows between here and Ponta Delgada.
- Piorno — G. maderensis grows between here and São Jorge.
- Historical dates — Made a town in 1743.
- Cottony cushion scale (Icerya purchasi) — Another locality where the insect was found.
- System of weights and measures — Rioters threw the new weights into the sea and destroyed records.
- Our Lady of Deliverance (chapels) — Parish of the 1685 chapel.
- Inferno (stream) — Parish where the stream rises and whose lands its levada irrigates.
- Pinheirinho (Equisetum maximum) — Damp places where the horsetail grows.
- Towns — Made a town in 1744 after north-coast parishes' petitions.
- Girão (cape) — Destination of the royal road from Funchal being surveyed when the cliff height was measured.
- Almude — Almude 20.538.
- Roads — Terminus of roads 25 and 26 across the island.
- Fishing ports — Fishing port; one sperm whale landed in 1943.
- Fiscal Organisation — Fiscal Guard post.
- Popular riots — Scene of 1755 riots over the Paul da Serra.
- Wheat — One of the parishes where wheat growing is most important.
- Judicial administration — Seat of a comarca from 1876.
- Longevity — Listed in the 1911 longevity statistics.
- Sea distances — Coastal stage in the distance table.
- Livramento — Parish containing this locality.
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2Chronology
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A royal charter raised the parish of São Vicente to the status of a town and municipality, attaching northern localities such as Porto Moniz, Ponta Delgada and Seixal to it and further reducing the municipality of Machico.
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Riots broke out in Calheta, Ponta do Sol and São Vicente over a concession of Paul da Serra.
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A new administrative organisation gave Madeira ten municipalities, creating among others Câmara de Lobos, Santana (including Porto da Cruz, over Machico's protests), Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Calheta and a reorganised Ponta do Sol; Funchal's limits were fixed at the end of the year and the district head became Civil Governor.
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António Jardim de Oliveira was born in São Vicente.
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Manuel de Sousa Brasão was born in São Vicente.
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A flood on 2 and 3 October damaged north-coast parishes of Madeira.
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A decree suppressed the Porto Moniz municipality for a second time, annexing its parishes to Calheta and São Vicente; it was restored in 1898.
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The Monte Medonho levada was diverted to irrigate Ribeira Brava and Tábua instead of São Vicente.
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The São Vicente land registry office was installed.
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A rain-gauge post was set up at São Vicente.