São Sebastião is a parish in the district of Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is a city and municipality on the island of São Miguel in the archipelago of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. It includes 44,403 residents in the urban area, and approximately 20,113 inhabitants in the three central parishes that comprise the historical city: São Pedro,...

 in the Azores

Azores

The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...

. The population in 2001 is 4309, its density is 1290.12/km² and the area is 3.34 km². The parish is part of the downtown area of Ponta Delgada and is the second in density as well as third in population in Ponta Delgada. Until June 30, 2003, the parish was known as Matriz (Ponta Delgada).

Geography

São Sebastião also has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church and a few squares (praças), including the main garden (Jardim de Francisco Bettencourt).

Civic

• City Gates
• Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) Building
• Comando da Defesa Marítima of Ponta Delgada Building
• Correios, Telégrafos e Telefones (CTT) Building
• Estate of Solar do Condes de Albuquerque
• Estate of Solar José do Canto (also known as Solar Scholtze or Solar Bérquos)
• Estate of Solar São Joaquim
• House on Rua do Melo No.62
• House on Rua Dr. Guilherme Poças, No.14
• House on Rua Dr. Luís Bettencourt, No.24-28
• House on Rua Margarida Chaves, No.28
• House in Largo Marquês de Pombal
• Hospital of Ponta Delgada
• Palace of Santana, also known as the Palace of Jácome Correia - the official residence of the President of the Regional Government of the Azores

Religious

• Chapel of Sant' Ana
• Church of the Jesuit College
  Church of the Jesuit College (São Sebastião)
  The Church of the Jesuit College , is a church in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, in the civil parish of São Sebastião, part of the historic centre of regional centre...
  
  , located in the Largo do Marques de Pombal, half a kilometre north of the historic centre, the Church was part of a group of buildings constructed by the Campanhia do Jesus (the Jesuits) to provide ecclesiastical education to the residents of Ponta Delgada. The church, officially the Church of Todos-os-Santos (All Saints) was constructed through the initiatives of João Lopes, who convinced the Jesuit priests and Diocese of Angra to establish their school. The church is characterized by a grande façade of imposing doors, circular windows and verandas, topped by an incomplete double clock-tower. It is one of the peripheral buildings of the Carlos Machado Museum (sacred arts wing), the home of the Library and Archive of Ponta Delgada, and its convent annexes occupied by offices of the regional government.
• Church of São Sebastião
• Church of Santa Bárbara
• Convent of Santo André* Chapel of São Bráz