City, Cathedral, Botanical garden, Fortress, Museum, Pebble beach
Funchal is the capital and, with more than 110,000 inhabitants, the largest city of Madeira, which will absorb you with its colonial atmosphere. The city lies in a wide bay in the southeast of the island and, because of its mountainous surroundings, climbs from the sea up the hill to places beyond which the terrain simply cannot go. Funchal is made up of 4 basic units - the historic centre in the middle, the Old Town (Zona Velha) to the east,…
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Statue, Lookout, Cable car
The statue of Christ the King rises to a height of about 15 metres on a high cliff above the sea to protect all Madeira fishermen. At night it is illuminated to act as a beacon. [btn "View accommodation in Madeira" https://booking.com/region/pt/madeira.cs.html?aid=2380460;label=p-madeira-socha-garajau] Built in 1927 in the Art Deco style, the statue is not dissimilar to the more famous statues in Rio de Janeiro or Lisbon. It stands in the…
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