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CITY GUIDES
Places to visit
Churches
Funchal´s Sé
decoration. It has Gothic arches, a
splendid inlaid cedar ceiling of Moorish
design, beautiful carved blue and gold
choir stalls, gilded altars and a sptinkling
of nice azulezos.
College Church
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Cathedral is one of the island´s
oldest
buildings
and
located in the city of Funchal, Madeira
Island.
Sé
Cathedral
of
Funchal,
classified as a National Monument since Source image: visit madeira.pt
1910, constitutes the main religious Popularly known as the College Church, it
temple of the Archipelago, being visited is a magnificent example of 17th century
by the inhabitants and visitors of the city mannerist style.
of Funchal. The church has a beautiful collection of
Begun in 1493 and completed in 1517, altarpieces wrapped in gilded wood and is
the cathedral is one of the few buildings considered one of the most beautiful
in Funchal to survive from the early days Portuguese temples of its time and one of
of colonization. It also has one of the the richest churches on the island of
most beautiful ceilings in Portugal, made Madeira. Special mention is made of the
of wood from the island, and the impressive
chancel's chair has a Flemish style. decorated with gilded wood, including
The exterior is plain and simple, topped the Chapel of the Eleven Thousand
by a granite clock tower, but the Virgins and the tile panels of the
cathedral´s interior Portuguese workshops in Lisbon.
impressive, lined
is
with
lavish
and
spectacular
organ
and
the
chapels
The
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