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Vila Franco do Campo
(Fr. de São Pedro)
São Miguel (ilha)
Reg. Aut. dos Açores

Avenida da Liberdade
(Jardim Dr. António da Silva Cabral)

Padre Ernesto Ferreira

Father Ernesto Ferreira

Vila Franco do Campo 1880 - Vila Franco do Campo 1943
Azorean ethnographer and naturalist; founded and edited the magazine Phenix (Vila Franca do Campo) and the newspaper A Crença
(Wikipedia)

Xavier Costa
1952

Vila Franco do Campo / Padre Ernesto Ferreira

Description

Marble bust on a pedestal with a fountain in front of it.

Inscription(s)

AO
PADRE
ERNESTO
FERREIRA
1880-1943
A SUA VILA

Vila Franco do Campo - Padre Ernesto Ferreira

Sculptor

Francisco Xavier de Viveiros Costa (1914 - ??), Azorean sculptor.

Sources & Information

João & Rita Freitas, Estatuária Micaelense (Ponta Delgada 2007) (also on-line in three parts at blogspot).

Locatie (N 37°42'57" - W 25°26'25") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptac091; Photograph: 24 June 2016
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