ARCO DA CALHETA
(PARISH OF CALHETA MUNICIPALITY)
32° 42' 49" N 17° 08' 51" W
Arco da Calheta is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Calheta (Madeira), with an area of 14.7 km² and 2999 inhabitants (2021 census). Its population density is 204 inhabitants/km².
Arco da Calheta has two schools, a gym, the church of São Brás and the church of Nossa Senhora do Loreto, a Home for the Elderly and a sports pavilion.
Sites
Achada de Santo Antão
Patrimony
Main Church of Arco da Calheta (Church site)
Chapel and Church of Our Lady of Loreto (Lombada do Loreto)
This 16th century church and chapel is located on the Lombada do Loreto site.
The following is known about this chapel from an old book in the parish archive: “this chapel is magnificent for its architecture and manufacturing, it was built in the beginnings of this parish…”. The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto, is one of the oldest in the parish, it was initially the chapel of the houses of Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, 3rd son of the 2nd captain of Funchal, and was ordered to be enlarged by his wife D. Joana de Eça, lady of Queen D. Catherine of Habsburg.
The chapel has a set of Manueline architectural elements. “The main altar of the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto had work done at the end of the 18th century, and from that time there was a painting on canvas signed by Nicolau Ferreira and dated 1791″. This was part of João Gonçalves Zarco's manor and retains the baptismal font.
Manueline church with a longitudinal plan and a single nave with a Mudejar roof and main gable facade. Revival due to the construction of the large galilee, tower finishing, pinnacle decoration and polygonal openings.
Chapel of Our Lady of Nazaré (site of Paredes)
Chapel of Our Lady of Conceição (Amoreiras site)
Chapel of Our Lady of Life (site of Fajã do Mar)
Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Fonte do Til site)
São Brás Parish Church
An 18th-century church, located at Sítio da Igreja in Arco da Calheta in 1472, it was headquartered in the São Brás chapel and its first vicar was Father Pedro Delgado. This Mannerist and revivalist style church with a longitudinal plan, where the paintings of ramadas in the Chapel of Our Lady of Fátima and the side and collateral altarpieces stand out, this main church was rebuilt in 1744.
Geography
The parish of Arco da Calheta is surrounded to the north and west by the parish of Calheta, and east by the municipality of Ponta do Sol (specifically the parishes of Canhas and Madalena do Mar), fronting the Atlantic Ocean along its southern border. Buildings are found in the amphitheatre-shaped valley, as well as on the escarpments overlooking the community, alongside Calheta (in Calhau Grande) and Madalena do Mar (Achada de Santo Antão). Its landscape within this semi-circular valley was the basis for its name; the early settlers, owing to the band/arch of settlements with the valley, baptized the region the "Arch of Calheta", or Arco da Calheta. A band of laurisilva forests subdivides the parishes built-up area from the barren vegetation of the mountains.
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Arco da Calheta;
Estreito da Calheta;
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Fajã da Ovelha;
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