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 Convent of Santa Clara
Built between 1489 and 1496, this beautiful convent features 18th-century tiled walls,
Hispanic-Arab-style wooden and tile ceilings, and a collection of restored 17th-18th-
century canvases.
The Santa Clara Convent in Funchal, Madeira, is a Poor Clares convent erected in the
late 15th century to collect daughters of the local nobility.
It was commissioned by the second donor-captain of the island of Madeira, João
Gonçalves da Câmara, in the vicinity of his father's residence.
The convent functioned until the extinction of religious orders in the nineteenth
century, when it could no longer admit novices.
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Address: Calçada de Santa Clara 15, 9000-036 Funchal
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