Beach located ten minutes away by car from Funchal city centre. It has two small beaches of sand and one with shingles, called Arieiro. It has Blue flag and is watched by a team of lifeguards. It is an attractive spot because it offers many sports practice and a lively nightlife. It has three healthcare assistance posts, WC, playground for children from 2 to 12, car park and locker rooms.

Military Museum Located inside São Tiago Fortress.

Museum placed at the former Thermal Power Station of Funchal, exhibiting a vast collection of documents and rare models of machines and equipments. It is possible to observe the course of lighting in Funchal, since the oil-lamp, through kerosene until electricity.

Permanent exhibition of Madeira embroidery, since the 1860s until about 1930. it owns decorative objects, furniture and clothes from the same period. Here you’ll get to know the story of embroidery making process.

Museum devoted to the life and work of Sister Mary Jane Wilson, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Nossa Senhora das Vitórias Congregation. It has five rooms where some old pictures, personal objects of Mary Jane Wilson and vast collection of works are in exhibition.

A funcionar na antiga casa de João Gonçalves Zarco, descobridor da Madeira, este espaço apresenta uma coleção de mobiliário português e inglês dos séculos XVI a XIX, cujo acervo conta com cerca de 3800 peças provenientes de diferentes países: Europa, Oriente (China, Japão), Portugal (incluindo as peças de âmbito regional), maioritariamente bens de natureza artística - Artes Decorativas - ainda que existam pequenos núcleos de objetos arqueológicos e etnográficos. É possível apreciar porcelanas, pratas, faiança, escultura e pintura. Integra elementos das mais diversas proveniências, mas sobretudo de Igrejas, Conventos, e Edifícios Públicos, alguns dos quais remontam aos finais do séc. …

Museum opened in 1957, at the space of the Municipal Museum of Funchal, located at the São Pedro Palace. It has 15 tanks exhibiting various species of the Madeira coast sea fauna.

A Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas foi inaugurada em 1988. Ocupa o Palácio da Calçada, antiga residência dos Condes da Calçada, cuja origem remonta ao século XVII. Foi durante cerca de 40 anos moradia do Dr. Frederico de Freitas (1894-1978), advogado, notário e colecionador madeirense, que adquiriu um impressionante conjunto de obras de arte, legado por sua morte à Região Autónoma da Madeira. Ao especial encanto de um interior de habitação, alia-se a ambiência daquela que foi a casa de um dos maiores colecionadores locais, onde se reunem importantes núcleos de mobiliário, escultura, pintura, cerâmica, vidros e metais. Em 1999, a …

This space assembles the goods given by João Carlos Abreu, regional secretary of Tourism and Culture of Madeira. There’s an exhibit of a collection of about ten thousand pieces, such as books, ceramics, paintings and bronze objects.

The museum Photographia Vicentes is based in the collection of the atelier founded in 1845, with a department of emulsified glasses unique in the world. It is placed in the former photographic studio of Vicente Gomes da Silva, built in 1865 and remodelled in 1887, keeping its architectonical characteristics until today. This space also has about 800 thousand negatives of collection of professional and amateur photographers, and a small nucleus for Cinema.