History of Santa Cruz Madeira island

The village of Santa Cruz is one of the oldest in the island, dating from the early fifteenth century.

The county was created on June 26 of 1515and was elevated to city status on August 2 of 1996.

Church of Santa Cruz.

The level of architectural heritage, we highlight the Church of Santa Cruz, built by King Manuel I, which began as a small chapel, built in 1533, and has a Gothic portal, the Mother of God Chapel in CanicoFounded in 1536, the Chapel of the Consolationof the sixteenth century, recast in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, and has carved woodwork and built-in tools in religioussilver and various images, the Chapel of St. Elizabeth, the beginning of the eighteenth century, which has a beautiful main altar in gilt, the Church of Mercy, dating from the sixteenth century, the Chapel of Our Lady of Conception, the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Chapel of Our Lady of Remedies and the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy, the end of the seventeenth century, and the Parish Church of Gaulfrom the middle of the eighteenth century, it retains a filling of liturgical, that is part of a processional cross from the fifteenth century, in prat

Igreja matriz de Santa Cruz.