Fenais da Luz
Template:Infobox Portuguese subdivision Fenais da Luz is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 2,009,<ref>Instituto Nacional de Estatística</ref> in an area of Template:Convert.<ref>Eurostat Template:Webarchive</ref>
History
The origin of the place name was justified by Gaspar Frutuoso as originating from the abundance of natural fenal that grew in the fields; fenais is Portuguese word for fenal.<ref name="DRAC">DRAC (2010), p. 22.</ref> Writing in the Saudades da Terra referred:
- "...the place of Fenais, in the 'courtyard' of the city of Ponta Delgada, there said, with letter changed and corrupted, to there being much fenal".<ref name=DRAC/>
Its parochial church, dedicated to Our Lady of Light (in 1756) was constructed over the ruins of an older episode.<ref name=DRAC/> The church was identified by Queen D. Maria I in the celebration marking the defeat between forces of D. António, Prior of Crato and Philip II of Spain in 1582.<ref name=DRAC/>
Geography
Fenais da Luz is located on the north coast of the island and includes, along with the principal settlement of Fenais, the localities of Aflitos and Farropo.<ref name=DRAC/>
Architecture
- Church of Nossa Senhora das Luz (Template:Langx)
- Hermitage of Bom Jesus of Aflitos (Template:Langx)
- Hermitage of São Pedro (Template:Langx)