Skip to content
Elucidário Madeirense Home
Place foreign city/place Portugal Europe
Vila Franca do Campo

Vila Franca do Campo

Portugal · Europe

town in the Azores

Vila Franca do Campo is an Azorean town in whose waters the 1582 naval battle took place, in which D. Francisco de Portugal died. Rui Gonçalves da Câmara was buried in its parish church.

Map: Europe (1)

1Mentioned in

· 5

2Chronology

  1. At the naval battle off Vila Franca do Campo, D. Francisco de Portugal, Count of Vimioso, died fighting for the Prior of Crato.

Recently viewed

    Pages you read will appear here.