The settlement is linked with a poor dirt linking to nearby Campo Baixo as well as Nova Sintra and the rest of the island.
The "Archive" goals were to publish scores of Brazilian music, which standed out in its first publishing: Missa dos Defuntos (1809) for 4 voices a cappella and Tantum Ergo by Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Canto Religioso and O Salutaris by Francisco Manuel da Silva, and several opera's passages reduced to piano part from Joanna de Flandres by Carlos Gomes.