Top 10 Madeira (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides)
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<strong>Madeira</strong>’s <strong>Top</strong> <strong>10</strong><br />
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Left Museu Photographia Vincentes Right Casa Museu Frederico de Freitas<br />
Museums<br />
! Museu de Arte Sacra,<br />
Funchal<br />
Funchal’s Religious Art<br />
Museum is renowned for<br />
its colourful 16th-century<br />
Flemish paintings, but<br />
also has many remarkable<br />
polychrome wooden<br />
statues (see pp<strong>10</strong>–11).<br />
Adegas de São @ Francisco, Funchal<br />
A guided visit to this<br />
charming, cobblestoned vintage<br />
<strong>Madeira</strong> wine lodge is a heady<br />
experience involving all the<br />
senses (see pp12–13).<br />
£ Museu da Quinta das<br />
Cruzes, Funchal<br />
This is the house where <strong>Madeira</strong>’s<br />
first ruler lived when <strong>Madeira</strong><br />
was still young – the newest<br />
addition to Portugal’s growing<br />
portfolio of overseas colonies at<br />
the start of the great Age of Discovery<br />
in the 15th century. Paintings<br />
and sketches of the island’s<br />
major landmarks hang on the<br />
walls of the Quinta’s richly decorated<br />
rooms (see pp14–15).<br />
Picnic by T. da Anunciacao, Museu da Quinta<br />
das Cruzes<br />
Franciscan saints,<br />
Museu de Arte Sacra<br />
$ A Cidade do Açúcar,<br />
Funchal<br />
Devoted to the island’s early<br />
sugar trade, this museum<br />
is also on the site of a<br />
house where Christopher<br />
Columbus stayed<br />
for six days in 1498, during<br />
his third voyage to<br />
the New World. d Praça<br />
do Colombo 5 • Map P3 • 291<br />
236 9<strong>10</strong> • <strong>10</strong>am–12:30pm,<br />
2–6pm Mon–Fri • Adm charge<br />
% Museu Photographia<br />
Vicentes, Funchal<br />
Founded by Vincent Gomes da<br />
Silva in 1852 (12 years after photography<br />
was invented), this photographic<br />
studio survives,<br />
complete with cameras, sets and<br />
costumes. d Rua da Carreira 43 • Map<br />
P3 • 291 225 050 • <strong>10</strong>am–12:30pm, 2–<br />
5pm Mon–Fri • Adm charge<br />
Museu Municipal e ^ Aquário, Funchal<br />
This museum offers a darkened<br />
aquarium downstairs, and a<br />
study collection of stuffed fish,<br />
birds and other <strong>Madeira</strong>n wildlife<br />
upstairs. d Rua da Mouraria 33 • Map<br />
P2 • 291 229 761 • <strong>10</strong>am–6pm Tue–Fri,<br />
noon–6pm Sat–Sun • Adm charge<br />
Casa Museu Frederico de<br />
& Freitas, Funchal<br />
Housed in a 19th-century mansion<br />
packed with antiques and religious<br />
paintings, this museum also has<br />
an amusing collection of teapots<br />
from all over the world. A new<br />
wing is devoted to ceramic tiles,
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