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'''Pilar da Bretanha''' is a civil parish in the municipality of [[Ponta Delgada]] on the island of [[São Miguel Island|São Miguel]], in the [[Azores]]. It only became an independent parish recently; on July 10, 2002, it was broken-off from the civil parish of Bretanha along with [[Ajuda da Bretanha]].
'''Pilar da Bretanha''' is a [[freguesia|civil parish]] in the [[concelho|municipality]] of [[Ponta Delgada]] on the island of [[São Miguel Island|São Miguel]], in the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] archipelago of the [[Azores]]. It was deannexed from the historical parish of [[Bretanha]] on 10 July 2002, along with [[Ajuda da Bretanha]].


==History==
==History==
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:''They refer to this place as Bretanha [which means "pertaining to Britain"]...because the land is high and rugged, and they called the older residents High Bretons; others say that, in the past, on those lands their lived and worked a Britian.''
:''They refer to this place as Bretanha [which means "pertaining to Britain"]...because the land is high and rugged, and they called the older residents High Bretons; others say that, in the past, on those lands their lived and worked a Britian.''


The area continued to be referred to as Bretanha throughout the centuries, even as the number of English residents dwindle in proportion to the native Portuguese that settled the lands increased. Frutuoso continued to identify a small community of 82 homes (in a region that extended from [[Remédios|Nossa Senhora dos Remédios]], in the northeast, to [[Mosteiros]], in the northwest) and whose residents cultivated wheat and collected [[woad]] for export. Frutuoso, in particular, identified local resident Braz Alvres, a descendant of one of the earlier settlers, who gave his name to one of the peaks in the area (Pico de João Alvres), and who continued to tend his lands in the grotto of João Bom. Similarly, Pico da Mafra (which is located between Bretanha and Mosteiros), was named for a settler who came from the area of [[Mafra Municipality|Mafra]] on the continent. It was Baron Fernandes, another resident of the grotto of João Bom, who discovered an interesting agricultural technique in order to perpetuate consistent crop yields in this region. In 1550, he came upon the idea of planting [[pulse]] ([[Lupinus albus]]) around the edges of his wheat crops, which had the effect of fortifying the wheat. He did the same for his beans, and discovered the same effects. The practice of using the pulse soon disseminated throughout the island and archipelago. Then, when another settler, Lopo Pessoa, arrived on the island he went one step further; he began to alternate his crops annually, between pulse and wheat, to increase his yields.
The area continued to be referred to as ''Bretanha'' throughout the centuries, suggesting early settlement came from Templar knights, even as the number of English residents dwindled in proportion to the native Portuguese that settled the lands increased.<ref name="Insularidade">João Leonardo Bairos Figueiredo (8-11 May 2008), p.79</ref> A study on the linguistic influences of Bretanha, by Maria Clara Rolão Bernardo, reaffirmed this early conviction, while Lacerda Machado noted the greater influence of immigrant populations from Alto-Alentejo subregion in the rest of the island.<ref name=Insularidade/> Frutuoso continued to identify a small community of 82 homes (in a region that extended from [[Remédios|Nossa Senhora dos Remédios]], in the northeast, to [[Mosteiros]], in the northwest) and whose residents cultivated wheat and collected [[woad]] for export. Frutuoso, in particular, identified local resident Braz Alvres, a descendant of one of the earlier settlers, who gave his name to one of the peaks in the area (Pico de João Alvres), and who continued to tend his lands in the grotto of João Bom. Similarly, Pico da Mafra (which is located between Bretanha and Mosteiros), was named for a settler who came from the area of [[Mafra Municipality|Mafra]] on the continent. It was Baron Fernandes, another resident of the grotto of João Bom, who discovered an interesting agricultural technique in order to perpetuate consistent crop yields in this region. In 1550, he came upon the idea of planting [[pulse]] ([[Lupinus albus]]) around the edges of his wheat crops, which had the effect of fortifying the wheat. He did the same for his beans, and discovered the same effects. The practice of using the pulse soon disseminated throughout the island and archipelago. Then, when another settler, Lopo Pessoa, arrived on the island he went one step further; he began to alternate his crops annually, between pulse and wheat, to increase his yields.


The locality of Pilar, by 1716, had already its own parish clergy, but administratively only had its own parochial registry after 1891.
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The old parish of Bretanha that extended along the northern coast of Ponta Delgada, included the localities of Remédios, Ajuda and Pilar until 13 December 1960 (Regional decree 43/392), when Remédios da Bretanha (later just Remédios), broke away from the other administrative territories (leaving behind the agglomerations of Ajuda, that included Amoreiras, and Pilar, that included João Bom.<ref name="GRA">{{citation |editor=GRA |publisher=Assembleia Legislativa Regional |location=Horta (Azores), Portugal |language=Portuguese |accessdate=26 September |date=2002 |url=http://base.alra.pt:82/iniciativas/plenario/LPjDLR012-01.pdf |title=Decreto Lei nº 24/2002: Criação das Freguesias de "Pilar de Bretanha" e "ajuda de Bretanha", no Concelho de Ponta Delgada}}</ref> Owing to the growth in the remaining populations, and economic development of its centres, on 12 June 2002, the Regional Legislative Assembly decided to divide the remaining territory and establish the civil parishes of Ajuda and Pilar de Bretanha.<ref name=GRA/>

By 1906, Bretanha (and in particular Pilar) was considered one of the most distant points from the island capital. The trip, approximately five hours in length, required a resident of the parish to journey the whole day from twilight to dusk, and cost 375 [[Portuguese real|réis]] (departing at four in the morning and returning by sunset).<ref name="Machado">José Joaquim Ferreira Machado (2004), p.129-130</ref> The appearance of commercial automobiles allowed residents to reduce this cost to 75 réis, allowing greater mobility.<ref name=Machado/>

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The old parish of Bretanha that extended along the northern coast of Ponta Delgada, included the localities of Remédios, Ajuda and Pilar until 13 December 1960 (Regional decree 43/392), when Remédios da Bretanha (later just Remédios), broke away from the other administrative territories (leaving behind the agglomerations of Ajuda, that included Amoreiras, and Pilar, that included João Bom.<ref name="GRA">{{citation |editor=GRA |publisher=Assembleia Legislativa Regional |location=Horta (Azores), Portugal |language=Portuguese |accessdate=26 September |date=2002 |url=http://base.alra.pt:82/iniciativas/plenario/LPjDLR012-01.pdf |title=Decreto Lei nº 24/2002: Criação das Freguesias de "Pilar de Bretanha" e "ajuda de Bretanha", no Concelho de Ponta Delgada}}</ref><ref name="GRA2">{{citation |editor=GRA |publisher=Assembleia Legislativa Regional |location=Horta (Azores), Portugal |language=Portuguese |accessdate=26 September |date=12 June 2002 |url=http://base.alra.pt:82/iniciativas/plenario/DPPjDLR012-01.pdf |title=Diário da Sessão n.º 051 de 12/06/02: Projecto de Decreto Legislativo Regional – “criação das freguesias de “Pilar da Bretanha e Ajuda da Bretanha, Concelho de Ponta Delgada}}</ref><ref name="GRA3">{{citation |editor=GRA |publisher=Assembleia Legislativa Regional |location=Horta (Azores), Portugal |language=Portuguese |accessdate=26 September |year=2002 |url=http://base.alra.pt:82/iniciativas/comissao/CPjDLR012-01.pdf |title=Parecer da Comissão de Política Geral sobre o Projecto de Decreto Legislativo Regional - “Criação das freguesias de Ajuda da Bretanha e Pilar da Bretanha, no Concelho de Ponta Delgada”}}</ref> Owing to the growth in the remaining populations, and economic development of its centres, on 12 June 2002, the Regional Legislative Assembly decided to divide the remaining territory and establish the civil parishes of Ajuda and Pilar de Bretanha.<ref name=GRA/>

==Geography==
The civil parish, as established by charter, is located in the northwestern coast of the island São Miguel. Its borders follow the coast, and front 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]].<ref name=GRA/> Its eastern frontier begins at the Atlantic Ocean and runs into the interior, following the waterway of the Grota da Lomba Grande, travelling 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.<ref name=GRA/> Its western frontier is simply defined by the waterway of the Grota do Loural.<ref name=GRA/>


==References==
==References==
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* {{citation | last = da Costa| first = C. | title = Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Bretanha - São Miguel | publisher = Jornal Açores 9, Ano V, No.44, February, Ponta Delgada | year = 2010 | page= 10 }}
* {{citation |last=da Costa |first=C. |title =Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Bretanha (São Miguel) |publisher=Jornal Açores 9 |issue=Ano V, no.44, February |location=Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal |language=Portuguese |year=2010 |page=10 }}
* {{citation | last = Fructuoso| first = G. | title = Saudades da Terra (Vol.1-6), 1873 | publisher = Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada, Ponta Delgada| ISBN = 972-9216-70-3|year = 1966}}
* {{citation |last=Frutuoso |first=Gaspar |title=Saudades da Terra |volume=1-6 (1873) |publisher=Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada |location=Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal |language=Portuguese |ISBN=972-9216-70-3 |year=1966}}
* {{citation |first=José Joaquim Ferreira |last=Machado |title=A Administração Municipal de Ponta Delgada nos Primórdios da Autonomia (1896-1910) |location=Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal |year=2004 |language=Portuguese |accessdate=26 September 2012 |url=https://repositorio.uac.pt/bitstream/10400.3/529/1/DissertMestradoJos%C3%A9JoaquimMachado2005.pdf}}
* {{citation |first=João Leonardo Bairos |last=Figueiredo |contribution=Cultura da Língua Açoriana, uma Identidade Lusófona |publisher=Publiçor |language=Portuguese |title=Açores: a insularidade, o isolamento e a preservação da língua portuguesa no mundo |date=8-11 May 2008 |accessdate=26 September 2012 |location=Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal}}


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Template:Geobox Pilar da Bretanha is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It was deannexed from the historical parish of Bretanha on 10 July 2002, along with Ajuda da Bretanha.

History

Front facade of the Church of Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Pilar da Bretanha

In a description by Francisco A. Chaves e Melo, the church in Pilar appeared as the center of religious life in this zone, before 1716, an area that encompassed not only present-day Pilar, but also the local community of João Bom. Little is known of the original chapel, which was dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar), except for the writings of Dr. Ernesto do Canto, on his treatises on religious sanctuaries of São Miguel, titled O Preto no Branco. In his work, the author refers to the last testament of Captain João de Sousa de Vasconcelos, resident of Bretanha, who left certain items to the chapel in his will (16 March 1728). Owing to its state (pratical ruins), during the second half of the 19th century, the chapel was reconstructed, taking on the church's current dimensions.

The chronicler and historian, Father Gaspar Frutuoso identified the region of Bretanha in the early part of the 1870s. As he wrote:

They refer to this place as Bretanha [which means "pertaining to Britain"]...because the land is high and rugged, and they called the older residents High Bretons; others say that, in the past, on those lands their lived and worked a Britian.

The area continued to be referred to as Bretanha throughout the centuries, suggesting early settlement came from Templar knights, even as the number of English residents dwindled in proportion to the native Portuguese that settled the lands increased.[1] A study on the linguistic influences of Bretanha, by Maria Clara Rolão Bernardo, reaffirmed this early conviction, while Lacerda Machado noted the greater influence of immigrant populations from Alto-Alentejo subregion in the rest of the island.[1] Frutuoso continued to identify a small community of 82 homes (in a region that extended from Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, in the northeast, to Mosteiros, in the northwest) and whose residents cultivated wheat and collected woad for export. Frutuoso, in particular, identified local resident Braz Alvres, a descendant of one of the earlier settlers, who gave his name to one of the peaks in the area (Pico de João Alvres), and who continued to tend his lands in the grotto of João Bom. Similarly, Pico da Mafra (which is located between Bretanha and Mosteiros), was named for a settler who came from the area of Mafra on the continent. It was Baron Fernandes, another resident of the grotto of João Bom, who discovered an interesting agricultural technique in order to perpetuate consistent crop yields in this region. In 1550, he came upon the idea of planting pulse (Lupinus albus) around the edges of his wheat crops, which had the effect of fortifying the wheat. He did the same for his beans, and discovered the same effects. The practice of using the pulse soon disseminated throughout the island and archipelago. Then, when another settler, Lopo Pessoa, arrived on the island he went one step further; he began to alternate his crops annually, between pulse and wheat, to increase his yields.

The locality of Pilar, by 1716, had already its own parish clergy, but administratively only had its own parochial registry after 1891.

By 1906, Bretanha (and in particular Pilar) was considered one of the most distant points from the island capital. The trip, approximately five hours in length, required a resident of the parish to journey the whole day from twilight to dusk, and cost 375 réis (departing at four in the morning and returning by sunset).[2] The appearance of commercial automobiles allowed residents to reduce this cost to 75 réis, allowing greater mobility.[2]

The old parish of Bretanha that extended along the northern coast of Ponta Delgada, included the localities of Remédios, Ajuda and Pilar until 13 December 1960 (Regional decree 43/392), when Remédios da Bretanha (later just Remédios), broke away from the other administrative territories (leaving behind the agglomerations of Ajuda, that included Amoreiras, and Pilar, that included João Bom.[3][4][5] Owing to the growth in the remaining populations, and economic development of its centres, on 12 June 2002, the Regional Legislative Assembly decided to divide the remaining territory and establish the civil parishes of Ajuda and Pilar de Bretanha.[3]

Geography

The civil parish, as established by charter, is located in the northwestern coast of the island São Miguel. Its borders follow the coast, and front 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.[3] Its eastern frontier begins at the Atlantic Ocean and runs into the interior, following the waterway of the Grota da Lomba Grande, travelling 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.[3] Its western frontier is simply defined by the waterway of the Grota do Loural.[3]

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b João Leonardo Bairos Figueiredo (8-11 May 2008), p.79
  2. ^ a b José Joaquim Ferreira Machado (2004), p.129-130
  3. ^ a b c d e GRA, ed. (2002), Decreto Lei nº 24/2002: Criação das Freguesias de "Pilar de Bretanha" e "ajuda de Bretanha", no Concelho de Ponta Delgada (PDF) (in Portuguese), Horta (Azores), Portugal: Assembleia Legislativa Regional, retrieved 26 September {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ GRA, ed. (12 June 2002), Diário da Sessão n.º 051 de 12/06/02: Projecto de Decreto Legislativo Regional – “criação das freguesias de “Pilar da Bretanha e Ajuda da Bretanha, Concelho de Ponta Delgada (PDF) (in Portuguese), Horta (Azores), Portugal: Assembleia Legislativa Regional, retrieved 26 September {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. ^ GRA, ed. (2002), Parecer da Comissão de Política Geral sobre o Projecto de Decreto Legislativo Regional - “Criação das freguesias de Ajuda da Bretanha e Pilar da Bretanha, no Concelho de Ponta Delgada” (PDF) (in Portuguese), Horta (Azores), Portugal: Assembleia Legislativa Regional, retrieved 26 September {{citation}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
Sources
  • da Costa, C. (2010), Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Bretanha (São Miguel) (in Portuguese), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Jornal Açores 9, p. 10
  • Frutuoso, Gaspar (1966), Saudades da Terra (in Portuguese), vol. 1-6 (1873), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada, ISBN 972-9216-70-3
  • Machado, José Joaquim Ferreira (2004), A Administração Municipal de Ponta Delgada nos Primórdios da Autonomia (1896-1910) (PDF) (in Portuguese), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal, retrieved 26 September 2012{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Figueiredo, João Leonardo Bairos (8–11 May 2008), "Cultura da Língua Açoriana, uma Identidade Lusófona", Açores: a insularidade, o isolamento e a preservação da língua portuguesa no mundo (in Portuguese), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Publiçor {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)CS1 maint: date format (link)
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