Sport is popular, and football clubs include the Paulense (representing the locality of Ribeira das Galinhas, Serrado da Cruz and Lagoa) and the Santo Amaro club (which represented the localities of Igreja and Quebrada).
Sunday 1 May 2022
RIBEIRA DAS GALINHAS
NOTABLE PAULEIROS
Dr. João Maurício Abreu dos Santos (17 September 1905 - 11 May 1969), medical doctor/practitioner; he completed his medical course at the Un...
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But during the nineteenth century, two serious epidemics attacked Madeira vines, causing losses. In order to try and hold the international ...
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The islands of Porto Santo and Madeira were re- discovered by Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and João Gonçalves Zarco, two Port...
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Lagoa receives its name from the fact that the area is fairly flat and suspectible to ocean swells, the area of Lagoa was regularly floode...