Santa Quitéria, Funchal
Santa Quitéria, Funchal forms part of the parish of Santo António (Funchal) on the island of Madeira, named after Saint Quiteria. The area is home to the largest shopping centre on the island, Madeira Shopping, with 106 shops occupying an area of approximately 26,600 m2. It also has 1,060 parking spaces. A levada Levada may refer to: * Levada (Madeira) - an irrigation channel or aqueduct on the island of Madeira. * Levada, Cape Verde, a village on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde * Levada, a district in Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the ... called Levada do Curral de Castelege also flows through this area. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Santa Quiteria, Funchal Madeira Island ...
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Santo António (Funchal)
Santo António ( Portuguese meaning "Saint Anthony") is a civil parish in the northwestern part of the municipality of Funchal on the island of Madeira. It is located about 3 km northwest of central Funchal. The most populous civil parish in the archipelago, it extends into the mountainous interior of the island. The population in 2011 was 27,383, in an area of 22.16 km2. History The settlement that existed in this area was primarily farmer houses and estates, that congregated around a small chapel dedicated to Santo António, in the early or mid 16th century, when it was elevated to ecclesiastical parish. The parish originated as a curacy established in 1557, becoming independent from the Sé. Early church records document religious services from this time, indicating the foundational work of priests such as Gonçalo Jorge Rodrigues and Francisco Afonso. Official recognition as a parish occurred in the late 16th century, with significant decrees improving clergy stipend ...
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Madeira Island
Madeira is a Portuguese island, and is the largest and most populous of the Madeira Archipelago. It has an area of , including Ilhéu de Agostinho, Ilhéu de São Lourenço, Ilhéu Mole (northwest). As of 2021, Madeira had a total population of 245,595. The island is the top of a massive submerged shield volcano that rises about from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano formed atop an east–west rift in the oceanic crust along the African Plate, beginning during the Miocene epoch over 5 million years ago, continuing into the Pleistocene until about 700,000 years ago. This was followed by extensive erosion, producing two large amphitheatres open to south in the central part of the island. Volcanic activity later resumed, producing scoria cones and lava flows atop the older eroded shield. The most recent volcanic eruptions were on the west-central part of the island only 6,500 years ago, creating more cinder cones and lava flows. Madeira is the largest ...
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Saint Quiteria
Quiteria was a second-century virgin martyr about whom little is certain except her name, the day and the place of her death, and her cult. She is listed under the date of 22 May in the ''Roman Martyrology''. She is one of the patron saints of Toledo, Spain.Giles, Ryan Dennis. ''The Laughter of the Saints: Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain'', University of Toronto Press, 2009, p. 54 et seq.
Accounts of her life are "absolutely legendary".

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''Quiteria'' may be derived from ''Kythere'' (or ''Kyteria'', ''Kuteria' ...
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Madeira Shopping
Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of the Canary Islands, Spain, west of the Morocco and southwest of mainland Portugal. Madeira sits on the African Tectonic Plate, but is culturally, politically and ethnically associated with Europe, with its population predominantly descended from Portuguese settlers. Its population was 251,060 in 2021. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, on the main island's south coast. The archipelago includes the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas, administered together with the separate archipelago of the Savage Islands. Roughly half of the population lives in Funchal. The region has political and administrative autonomy through the Administrative Political Statute of the Autonomous Region of Madeira provided for in the Portuguese Constitution. The region is an inte ...
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Levada (Madeira)
A levada is an irrigation channel or aqueduct (watercourse), aqueduct specific to the Portuguese Atlantic region of Madeira. Madeira island is wet in the northwest, but dry in the southeast. In the 16th century the Portuguese started building ''levadas'' (Aqueduct (water supply), aqueducts) to carry water to the agricultural regions in the south. Due to its mountainous landscape, building ''levadas'' promised to be a difficult venture, often tasked to criminals and convicts from continental Portugal to build these water canals. Many are cut into the mountainsides, accompanied by of tunnels, some of which are still accessible. Today ''levadas'' supply water and also provide Hydroelectricity, hydro-electric power. Over of ''levadas'' were built and later provided a network of walking paths. Paths can provide easy and relaxing walks through the countryside, while others are narrow, crumbling ledges where a slip could result in injury or death. Some improvements have been made to t ...
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Levada Do Curral De Castelege
Levada may refer to: * Levada (Madeira) - an irrigation channel or aqueduct on the island of Madeira. * Levada, Cape Verde, a village on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde * Levada, a district in Kharkiv, Ukraine * Levada Center - the Russian independent non-government polling and sociological research organisation. Italy * Levada, a village in Concordia Sagittaria, Italy * Levada, a village in Godega, Italy * Levada, a village in Pederobba, Italy * Levada, a village in Ponte di Piave, Italy * Levada, a village in Piombino Dese, Italy Surname * Yuri Levada - a renowned Russian sociologist and political scientist. * William Levada William Joseph Levada (June 15, 1936September 26, 2019) was an American Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2005 to 2012. During that time, he was the highest-ranking American in the Ro ...