Monday, January 1, 2024

💙💙 Parish of Fenais da Luz (Municipality of Ponta Delgada)

 


FENAIS DA LUZ
(Parish of Ponta Delgada Municipality)
37° 49′ 24″ N, 25° 38′ 29″ W

Fenais da Luz is a parish of Ponta Delgada Municipality. It has 7.67 km² of area and 2227 inhabitants (2021 census). Its population density is 290.4 hab./km².

It has a road that connects to Mosteiros and Ribeira Grande. Despite its primary economic activity being agriculture, a large slice of the population works elsewhere in the Ponta Delgada county. It is bathed by the Atlantic Ocean to the North.

It belongs to this parish the place of Afiltos, an important residential core, and place of deployment of the Battle Golf Field.

At Pico do Cascalho, in place of Aflitos, a battle fought in the year 1582, at the time of the succession crisis caused by the death of King Dom Sebastião, between the troops of Prior Crato and the troops of Philip II of Spain, having died 75 soldiers and an office. At the end of the conflict, Prior of the Crato came out victorious and his forces left to plunder all the parish. This battle has named the name of both the place of the Battle, and to the Affells, for it tells the legend that the people "aflt" sought refuge at this place.

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