Vila Morning Sun

18/01/2022

View to the sea, Prazers

18/01/2022

Sunrise

20/10/2021

Paul do Mar🙂

05/10/2021

Festa da Flor 2021

10/09/2021

History of Maderia:
A brief history of Columbus and PXO (he married the governors daughter here and fell in love with it too).

Christopher Columbus, came to Madeira because of the sugar trade, which at the time was intense. He had arrived in Lisbon in 1476, and tried to become part of the Genoese community in the city.

During the 1470s, the Madeira sugar production was already of 44.800 lbs. a year. Several Florentines and Genoese, like Francisco Calvo, Misser Leão and Baptista Lomellini, were even sugar producers in Madeira.

In 1478, Columbus went to Madeira, working as an intermediate in the sugar-trade dealings of Paolo di Negro and Ludovico Centurione.

There were further ties between Columbus and Madeira. He was married to Filipa de Moniz, the daughter of Isabel Moniz and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, the first Governor of Porto Santo.
There are many versions and readings of this marriage and its importance, and even about Columbus’ origins. It is important, nonetheless, to point out that Columbus’ ancestors, like Perestrelo’s, come from Placenza.

The marriage was probably celebrated in Lisbon, in 1479 or 1480. A child, Diego Columbus, was born around 1480, in Lisbon or Porto Santo.

Columbus’ stay in Madeira, which probably took place between 1480 and 1482, allowed him to gather many important data on Atlantic navigation. At that time, the Portuguese were busy exploring the African Western coast.

When Columbus came to Porto Santo, the island’s Governor was his brother-in-law, who had the same name as his father-in-law.

The second Governor had been Pedro Correia, who was married to Guiomar Teixeira, the daughter of the Governor of Machico.

Porto Santo was often preferred to other ports of the region, like Machico or Funchal, for maintenance purposes.

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