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Chapel of the Quinta do Monte Hotel – Panoramic Gardens

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Designed by architect Edmundo Tavares and built in 1935, with revivalist and neo-baroque features. The chapel features stained glass by Ricardo Leone and a large porch and interiors decorated with large religious panels from the Santana tile factory in Lisbon, executed based on drawings by painter Américo Tavares, the brother of the architect. The latter [...]

Bust of Father José Marques Jardim

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The Bust of Father José Marques Jardim is the work of Anjos Teixeira and was inaugurated in 1985. The importance of this priest and writer goes back to the times of WWI. He was responsible for erecting the Monument to Our Lady of Peace, following a promise made during an outdoor mass, where they pleaded [...]

Our Lady of Peace Sanctuary

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Architect Emanuel Ribeiro was commissioned to design it after a plea for peace by the Madeiran people to Our Lady of Monte, during a submarine attack on the port of Funchal in 1917, during World War One. A marble statue in honour of the Blessed Virgin under the invocation of Our Lady of Peace, seated [...]

Quinta do Monte Hotel – Panoramic Gardens

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An historic manor house that has been transformed into a hotel. It is surrounded by abundant subtropical vegetation and natural gardens with several centuries-old trees, which offer a beautiful sample of the Laurissilva forest. Its pedestrian paths are paved in traditional cobbled stones. Along these paths, there are a few garden benches decorated with tiles [...]

Church of Our Lady of Monte

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Built between 1741 and 1747 on the foundations of an old hermitage dating back to the fifteenth century, by order of one of the first settlers of the island. Here we can admire the statue of Our Lady of Monte, patroness of the island of Madeira, and the tomb of the Emperor Charles of Austria. [...]
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