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Vila Franca do Campo |
The First Micaelense Capital |
Vila Franca do Campo was during the first century stand of the most important town on the island of San Miguel, it set the master of the donee and the main institutions of the island (customs, ombudsman), and it deserves the epitome of the first micaelense capital.
That situation ended when the night of 21 to 22 October 1522, an earthquake caused a large slip of land on the slopes sobranceiras the town, causing a lahar that soterrou most of the village. The combined effect of the earthquake and caused the death of burying a few thousand people. The earthquake, today known as subversion of Vila Franca, also caused deaths in many other towns of San Miguel and also large slip of land in Maia and surrounding region and in Ponta Heron. The tragedy of Vila Franca inspired many written and at least one novel from scratch oral entitled Romance has been done d'some mágoas, and losses that caused the tremor of Vila Franca do Campo, edited by Teófilo Braga.
Despite the destruction, Vila Franca remained until the eighteenth century, when the Ribeira Grande suplantou in importance, the role of the island's second town (after Ponta Delgada, it desenrolando some of the most important events of struggles against between the supporters of D . Anthony, Prior of Crato and Castile, which culminated in the naval battle of Vila Franca, stopped along the southern coast of the island of San Miguel on July 26, 1582. After the battle, the Marquis of Santa Cruz de Mudela, D . Alvaro de Bazán, landed in the village, it establishes its headquarters there and making some 800 prisoners abuse French and Portuguese, the biggest massacre ever occurred in the Azores.
In July 1562, was born in this village Benedict of Goes (or Benedict of Góis), which undertook in Central Asia, between 1602 and 1606, the biggest journey of exploration land Portuguese and one of the largest ever in the history of mankind. |
