“… they sailed further down until they came to a narrow rock, …, which enters out into the sea, and, between this rock and the other, there is an arm of the sea at rest, where nature made a large den, in the style of a chamber of rock and stone; here the skiffs were […]
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One of the most important spotlights of the civil parish of Jardim da Serra is definetely the Boca dos Namorados viewing point. This amazing viewing point offers visitors a fantastic view over Curral ads Freiras and Funchal Bay.
Câmara de Lobos is a picturesque civil parish located within a city bearing the same name. The name of this land of fishermen, which has as its main specialty the fishing of the black swordfish, was called this way due to the fact that, around the time the Island was discovered, which took place in […]
Câmara de Lobos was the first place where João Gonçalves Zarco, the navigator who discovered the island, lived between 1420 and 1424. Due to this, it became the first settlement created in Madeira by João Gonçalves Zarco himself. Câmara de Lobos became a civil parish in 1430. The fist temple built in the island was […]
According to some, the name Estreito (narrow) de Câmara de Lobos is owed to the geographic characteristic: a canyon on a narrow valley. However, there are also those who believe that the name comes from a given place or location that, as a whole, had been formerly called Estreito. In time, the term would end […]
The parish was probably established in 1509, date when settlement started. The historic heritage of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos is basically constituted by the church of Nossa Senhora da Graça and by its chapels. Besides the religious buildings, the parish is a compulsory passing point for very important tourism destinations such as Boca dos […]
The Archipelago of Madeira has three places named Pico dos Bodes: one of them is situated in Jardim da Serra (nearby Boca dos Namorados) and the other one in Fajã da Ovelha viewing point. Also in the northern coast of Madeira Island, in the civil parish of Ribeira da Janela, there is a place named […]
