Monday, January 1, 2024

💙💙 Parish of Pilar da Bretanha (Municipality of Ponta Delgada)

 


PILAR DA BRETANHA
(Parish of Ponta Delgada Municipality)
37.90482, -25.78489

Pilar da Bretanha is a civil parish in the Ponta Delgada municipality on the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It was de-annexed from the historical parish of Bretanha on 10 July 2002, along with Ajuda da Bretanha. The population in 2011 was 624,[2] in an area of 6.07 square kilometers (2.34 sq mi). It contains the localities Casa Telhada, Covas, João Bom, and Pilar.

History
There are controversies about the origins of this parish, which was inhabited between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. The first colonists settled along the coast, from João Bom to Remédios. At one time these small communities were disparagingly referred to as those places in the north by settlers in Ponta Delgada.


Geography
The civil parish, established by charter, is located in the northwestern coast of the island of São Miguel. Its borders follow the coast, and front of the crater of the Sete Cidades massif (Cumeeiras das Sete Cidades) in the interior, bordered on the east by the civil parish of Ajuda da Bretanha and west by Mosteiros. Its eastern frontier begins at the Atlantic Ocean into the interior, following the waterway of the Grota da Lomba Grande, traveling south along this border between Grota da Lomba Grande and accessway to the Caminho da Lomba Grande (where it heads east until the margin), continuing south along the Grota da Lomba Grande again until reaching the Cumeeiras das Sete Cidades. Its western frontier is defined by the waterway of the Grota do Loural.

Architecture
Religious
Church of Nossa Senhora do Pilar (Portuguese: Igreja Paroquial de Pilar da Bretanha/Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pilar, the church was erected at the location of a former hermitage, that was ordered built by Captain Sebastião Álvares de Benevides in 1680. It was rebuilt in 1716, and expanded over the centuries, with the last altars (dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua and St. Joseph) installed by 1800.

Hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Boa Nova (Portuguese: Ermida de Nossa Senhora da Boa Nova/Ermida da Lombinha

Culture
Religious festivals dedicated to the Holy Spirit run in most of the parish, beginning after Easter Sunday and ending on 29 June. There are also various celebrations dedicated to St. Anthony (13 June), St. John the Baptist (24 June) and St. Peter (29 June).











































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