Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Monte
Church built in the XVIII century in the place where a chapel from the XV century used to be. Inside are visible some goldsmithery from the XVII and XVIII centuries and some paintings. At the lateral chapel is the body of Charles Habsburg, Emperor of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, exiled in 1931 to Madeira.
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Monuments near Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Monte
Estátua de João Gonçalves Zarco
Statue inaugurated in 1914 paying homage to the Portuguese navigator from the XV century João Gonçalves Zarco, who discovered this Island.
Fonte de Nossa Senhora do Monte
Marble fountain with square drawing built in the XIX century. It has a neoclassic reliquary style, headed by a water spout and a glassed niche.
Poço de Neve
Old deposit where the ice was kept from winter to summer, avoiding the fusion of ice grains and so securing the supplies for hospitals and hotels. It belongs t…
Quinta Terreiro da Luta
This former Train station is now working as a restaurant a space to organize marriages and other events. Here is a monument paying homage to Nossa Senhora da P…
Terreiro da Luta
Place where the Nossa Senhora da Paz sanctuary is built, in the sequence of the bombing of Funchal by German submarines, in 1917.
