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Monuments in Ponta do Sol
Casa da Lombada dos Esmeraldos / Casa dos Esmeraldos
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Lombada dos Esmeraldos
9360, Lombada dos Esmeraldos
Manor house with a rectangular plan, initially with a store on the ground floor and a house on the upper floor. In the 80s of the 20th century, a school was adapted.
Igreja da Madalena do Mar / Igreja de Santa Maria Madalena
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Rua do IV Centenário
9360-415, Madalena do Mar
Mannerist and Baroque church with a longitudinal plan and a single nave, built in the 16th century and expanded in the 18th century. Inside, highlights include a collateral chair and two decorated tribunes.
Igreja Paroquial dos Canhas / Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Piedade
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Estrada Igreja da Piedade, 30
9360, Lombo da Piedade
Baroque church with a longitudinal plan and a single nave, built in the 18th century and remodeled in the 20th century. The interior decoration dates back to the 20th century, in the Neo-Mannerist and Neo-Baroque style.
Capela do Espírito Santo da Lombada
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Lombada dos Esmeraldos
9360, Lombada dos Esmeraldos
Baroque chapel with a longitudinal plan and an interrupted pediment frontispiece. It was built in the 18th century and underwent renovation work in the 20th century. Inside, highlights include some baroque paintings and canvases framed in gilded woodwork on the ceilings of the nave.
Igreja Matriz de Ponta do Sol / Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Luz
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Rua Doutor João Augusto Teixeira
9360-219, Ponta do Sol
Manueline and Neo-Mannerist church with a longitudinal plan and a single nave, built in the 16th century, enlarged in the 18th century and restored in the 20th century.
Vila Passos
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Rua Príncipe Dom Luís, 3
9360, Ponta do Sol
A rural house with a rectangular plan, typical of a migrant from the island of Madeira, that has three floors, a mezzanino and yet another, more to the back and ending in a balcony.
Casa dos Azevedos
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Rua Santo António, 5
9360, Ponta do Sol
A typically Madeiran rural house, with a stor on the ground floor and the owners's dwellings on the upper floor. It was probably built in the 18th century and rebuilt in the 20th century. A special note to the main outer portal.
Casa da Madalena do Mar / Solar dos Freitas da Madalena
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Rua do IV Centenário
9360, Madalena do Mar
A rural house with an irregular square plan, typical of the Madeira island, composed of a store on the ground floor and the owners's dwelling on the upper floor. It was built in the 19th century and was used as quarters in the fourties of the 20th century. It is badly preserved.
Monumentos a Santa Teresinha
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ER222
9360, Outeiro
A monument built as a tribute to Saint Teresinha. It is a niche with three surrounding arches and, on top, a statue of Jesus in the cross.
Capela de São Sebastião
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Rua da Confraria
9360-218, Ponta do Sol
A small mannerist chapel with a simple longitudinal plan, probably built in the 17th centuryt and rebuilt in the 18th century. It was further restored in the 20th century. In the retable, a special note to three medalions in golden carving, decorated by stylized angels.