Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Nossa Senhora do Rosário is a civil parish and most populated area in the municipality of Lagoa, on the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. With a population of 5396 inhabitants in 2011, [ 1 ] the parish covers an area of approximately 6.52 square kilometres (2.52 sq mi) that extends from the southern coast of ...
Hermitage of Nossa Senhora das Angústias (Portuguese: Ermida de Nossa Senhora das Angústias), now located in the cemetery, it was once part of the original parochial Church; it was constructed in 1729 by two Spanish noblemen, D. Pedro and D. Manuel, who were saved from the shipwreck of the galleon Nuestra Señora de Angústias e San José ...
Lajes dos Flores, Azores: Câmara Municipal de Lajes das Flores. AA.VV., ed. (2005), Livro das paisagens dos Açores, Contributos para a identificação e caracterização das paisagens dos Açores (in Portuguese), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Direção Regional do Ordenamento do Território e dos Recursos Hídricos
The hermits were expelled from the convent, and the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição fell under the vigilance of the local authority of the parish of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos of Água de Pau. The Junta Geral then decided to transform the spaces into a lazaretto, in their minutes dated 27 July 1837, but these plans were never realized.
Açores - 78 (in Portuguese), Angra do Heroísmo (Azores), Portugal: Departamento de Estudos e Planeamento dos Açores; Monterey, Guido de (1981), Graciosa e São Jorge (Açores): Duas ilhas no centro do arquipélago (in Portuguese), Porto: Sociedade de Papelaria, Lda. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher
Zara was established by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. Their first shop was in central A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain, where the company is still based.They initially called it 'Zorba' after the classic 1964 film Zorba the Greek, but after learning there was a bar with the same name two blocks away, rearranged the letters to read 'Zara'.
Santa Maria was the first island in the archipelago to be discovered by Diogo Silves in 1427. [3] By 2 July 1439, a royal charter from Infante D. Pedro, regent of D. Afonso V, referred to the fact that Prince Henry the Navigator had ordered that sheep be set ashore along the seven islands of the Azores (since Corvo and Flores had, at the time, not been discovered). [3]
Doubt continues to exist as to the origin of the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Rocha, as well as the original fort that existed on this site. The privileged location on a promontory reflects the importance of the site, which was fortified to help secure the coast from Ossonoba to Lacobriga (), [1] as well as protecting the beach and maritime access.