Funchal Essentials

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[{"address":"Francisco Sá Carneiro Roundabout","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.10218818160659443,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.645754572026405,"longitude":-16.9128658850547},"media":[{"type":"text","content":"Hello Travellers!\nI'm Lisa, born and raised in Funchal!\n\nI started guiding 2016, when I finished my Mountain Guide Course.\nIn 2018, I was challenged to start Free Tours and so I did!\n\nI love History and I'm glad I can share a bit of it with you!"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F2022-05-12-19-36-54-783.jpg?alt=media&token=703513ab-16fd-4a56-8b45-bf93e4511fa0"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG-20181111-WA0000.jpg?alt=media&token=b612938a-2aa5-47f5-b3c5-b529150efcad"}]},{"address":"Santa Catarina Park","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.64549484660035,"longitude":-16.914064832484357},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_0_3.png?alt=media&token=0e3997c9-b975-48f1-9a33-9ef01dad0f6d"},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_0_5.mp4?alt=media&token=5fe62a94-d5f0-4661-91f3-f8638d09ef7c"},{"type":"text","content":"This Chapel was built in 1425, the year the Portuguese settled in Madeira.\nIt was dedicated to Saint Catherine, patron of the sailors, of those that were lost at sea and patron of the Knights of the Temple.\nIt was rebuilt in stones in the 16th Century.\nThe cross and the bell on the chapel's facade are the original ones from the 15th Century.\n\nOn the left side of the Chapel, you can see a Christopher Colombus statue.\nColombus visited Madeira several times.\nThe first was in 1478 to buy sugar.\nAbout 1 year later he got married wity Filipa Moniz, daughter of Porto Santo's Governor.\nColombus lived on the Archipelago for about 5 years.\nIt is said that his mother-in-law offered him some of her husband's maps, which inspired him to find a way to go to India through the West.\nIn 1500, on the way back from his third voyage, he stopped in Funchal, before continuing to Spain and he was still very well received by the locals."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_0_4.png?alt=media&token=945033a0-a061-4d5c-8c8f-7e5683387abe"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F2021-02-25-12-40-36.jpg?alt=media&token=db8c765a-f7ea-4914-bfe1-be165809d976"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG-20220907-WA0100.jpg?alt=media&token=d5d9a350-49de-4d2f-b877-79fb65010599"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG-20220907-WA0116.jpg?alt=media&token=66b894e6-f6fe-47be-ab5d-4867b1e394d8"}]},{"address":"Rotunda do Infante","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.646594008816116,"longitude":-16.913167325634696},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG_6405.JPG?alt=media&token=46d06287-bd26-4f2d-819a-8ab4f642197f"},{"type":"text","content":"Statue of Henry the Navigator, \"father\" of the Portuguese Discoveries.\nLeader of the Order of Christ, a Portuguese Religious and Military Order that evolved from the Knights of the Temple.\nIt was the Order of Christ that financed most of the Portuguese Expeditions during the Age of the Discoveries.\n\nThe Globe on the roundabout is an Armillary Sphere, a representation of the Cosmos, an Astronomy instrument that was adapted to Navigation. \nThis was one the instruments that enable the Portuguese to go all over the World. \nThe Armillary Sphere was introduced in Portugal by the Templars.\nThis symbol is present in various places around Funchal (churches, banks, squares) and it is one of the symbols integrated on the Portuguese flag (rings behing the shield)."},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_1_6.mp4?alt=media&token=0733bd6a-62d7-44e2-843a-550e4ed9da13"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_1_2.png?alt=media&token=b3b48664-ccfb-4238-935d-9bf13c64dc4c"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_1_3.png?alt=media&token=a79a436d-9a07-4482-9249-27e0de104093"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_1_4.png?alt=media&token=96c112b0-629a-4931-8a30-b5cf74664da0"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fbandeira.jpg?alt=media&token=78260660-05f6-4133-9791-06b04021b92a"}]},{"address":"R. Ivens 12","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.64780576368118,"longitude":-16.91150060934863},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F2018-09-11-11-21-48.jpg?alt=media&token=373696b0-2d6b-402d-bc1c-3b624070f121"},{"type":"text","content":"This is the Municipal Garden. Between the 1480's and the 1840's there was a Franciscan Monastry in this location.\nIn 1566, Funchal was ransacked by French Protestant Privateers.\nThe Franciscans Monks decided to face the invaders. The Monks ran towards the privateers, holding their crosses, wishing the sight of the cross would scare the Privateers away. Unfortunately, the monks were killed by the invaders.\n\nThe Privateers knew that the Franciscans had a great wine cellar. They drank all the wine they could, stole as many barrels as they managed to put on the ships and pour down the rest of it on the drains.\n\nThis Monastery was extinct in the 1840's, on a time that religious orders were abolished in Portugal. \n\nThe Municipal Garden was build in the 1880's and now-a-days you can find plants from all over the world. "},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_2_6.mp4?alt=media&token=d1169d22-47f6-47ac-92a8-defdfbb75dfd"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_2_4.png?alt=media&token=648ef36a-e6ae-4c2c-ae15-a6386ff2f930"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_2_3.png?alt=media&token=2e5209fd-7117-4ca2-93af-ec50a96a2647"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG-20220907-WA0092.jpg?alt=media&token=134a7080-3184-49e0-b679-5186eb221383"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG-20220907-WA0104.jpg?alt=media&token=4c2866e7-5b14-4a81-b7d6-c0e1c3928573"}]},{"address":"Blandy's Wine Lodge","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.6479045028642,"longitude":-16.910659027172144},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F95466227_244355073286048_6324095951858302976_n.jpg?alt=media&token=eadf6071-cbf2-401b-b111-c228787ff7db"},{"type":"text","content":"This used to be the Franciscans Wine Cellar.\nThe Madeira Wine is aged with heat. The barrels are put to age in the attics at temperatures of 40ª C for at least 3 years.\nThe Madeira Wine is recognised internationally.\nIt's mentioned in Shakespeare's Playwrights King Henry the IV and Richard the III; it was the Wine George Washington used to celebration the Declaration of Independence and that Thomas Jefferson referred as \"the wine of every civilized man\"!\nIn 1815, when Napoleon was exiled to Santa Helena Island, his ship stopped over to get supplies and Henry Veitch, English Consul back then, offered him a Madeira Wine barrel. Napoleon accepted, however never drank the wine, as he believed it was poisoned.\nAfter Napoleon's death, this wine was brought back to Madeira, bottled and one of this bottles was offer to Winston Churchill upon his visit to Madeira in the 1950's."},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_3_6.mp4?alt=media&token=1c60aa88-009f-4749-8738-6a5849ee35a0"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_3_2.png?alt=media&token=d5be21c4-3e87-4a0e-953c-e0694c70061a"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_3_3.png?alt=media&token=68211e10-ecfa-490a-98d7-56bb0a5fc011"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_3_4.png?alt=media&token=78127efb-8d67-414d-a210-256d7a6b2f90"}]},{"address":"Estátua João Gonçalves Zarco","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.64787536612034,"longitude":-16.90970416101616},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_4_2.png?alt=media&token=3e8dc219-6689-401e-b3ec-7cf9e446bd17"},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_4_5.mp4?alt=media&token=6893cf8b-ecc6-451a-be2c-452c79651579"},{"type":"text","content":"Statue of João Gonçalves Zarco, one of Madeira's discoverers and first Governor.\nIt is said that Zarco was wounded in the battle of Ceuta and became one-eyed. According to medieval medicine, fennel infusion was good to clean eye sockets. \nIt was probably Zarco that ordered to plant fennel, the plant that gave the name to our city (Fennel is called Funcho in Portuguese).\n\nThis statue was executed by Francisco Franco, a madeiran artist that studied in Paris, considered the best Portuguese sculpture of his time."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_4_1.png?alt=media&token=2745f40f-5db4-48f8-b2a6-3b9191919086"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_4_4.png?alt=media&token=93acf015-42ef-47cc-820a-01be2c342fc4"}]},{"address":"Pope John Paul II Statue","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.64821622899991,"longitude":-16.908001232956412},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG_6136.JPG?alt=media&token=cdbed9bd-ae39-4370-9cd8-e9b8687d571f"},{"type":"text","content":"Funchal's Cathedral.\nBuilt between 1490 and 1517 as \"the big church of Funchal\" and later blessed to become a Cathedral.\nBetween 1533 and 1551, it was the largest diocese in the World, having as suffragans the dioceses of the Portuguese Colonial Empire in the Azores, Brazil, Africa and India.\nKing Manuel I of Portugal offered 22 pieces of Silver, painted in gold to Funchal's Cathedral.\nDuring the Privateer Invasion in 1566, the priest hid some of these pieces in a recently opened tomb and the putrid smell discouraged the Invaders to stay for too long in the Cathedral.\n\nThe statue of Pope John Paul II in front of the Cathedral celebrates his visit to Madeira on May 1991. He was the only Pope that ever visited Madeira.\n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_5_2.png?alt=media&token=713e39ab-f73f-4c0b-a6a1-9848bfefdb62"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_5_3.png?alt=media&token=05018890-1c32-4434-8f4a-e6e6991e04e4"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_5_4.png?alt=media&token=2c2ad405-b33b-430e-8f53-02838167defc"},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_5_6.mp4?alt=media&token=badb5e38-c438-456f-b0eb-d8f491dc1f46"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F2021-02-03-09-53-29.jpg?alt=media&token=7e9adc95-17de-456a-a34f-062bc5995d11"}]},{"address":"Tv. do Forno 31","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.64962572272889,"longitude":-16.907445412311283},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_6_2.png?alt=media&token=267964fa-cf01-4719-a25e-c2abb1c7cce8"},{"type":"text","content":"Biscuit factory opened in 1893.\nThey produce traditional sweets from Madeira and the Bolo de Mel (Honey Cake, done with sugar cane syrup), the traditional cake of Madeiran Christmas. \nBest place to buy your edible souvenirs."},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_6_5.mp4?alt=media&token=ec081938-a9e4-49f3-a3b3-9d72e52e0285"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_6_3.png?alt=media&token=47c3f17a-9e84-4930-83db-ebdc36541e0d"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_6_4.png?alt=media&token=a975e8bf-2cd1-4a6d-b357-67b13c7602bd"}]},{"address":"Praca do Município 17","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.649886912505046,"longitude":-16.90890856262301},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG_6121.JPG?alt=media&token=ff94e84c-b7e9-414b-bfe5-ef89619aaee3"},{"type":"text","content":"Municipal Square.\nCity Hall on the Back.\nThe building on the left side is the old Jesuit College, that was used to prepare missionaries to go to other continents to found other colleges or churches.\nThe Jesuits were expelled from Portugal in 1758, as the were a very powerful and wealthy religious orders. Around this time, the Jesuits were also accused of participating on a plot to kill the Portuguese King Jose I and therefore this order was abolished in Portugal.\n\nNow-a-days, the building is part of the University of Madeira.\nThe \"College Church\", as is known locally, is considered the richest on the whole island and it's the only church in Funchal where we can go up to the terrace."},{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_7_5.mp4?alt=media&token=a8316c74-8f9c-495a-a4ae-166cbbfe3fd1"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_7_2.png?alt=media&token=41f09fff-13f7-4c34-9c84-838b3b9c6e09"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_7_3.png?alt=media&token=a48483ee-29a2-4e73-ba6f-4e200cc8ab71"}]},{"address":"Pereira D'Oliveira","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.65049259297207,"longitude":-16.909595632482798},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F2021-08-20-13-41-30.jpg?alt=media&token=985a2e88-8bc4-475c-a224-51995acdd623"},{"type":"text","content":"This is a Wine Lodge owned by a Madeiran family.\nThey offer free Madeira Wine tastings in D'Oliveiras."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_8_2.png?alt=media&token=892aa7b8-a8c7-4a52-8e01-2aeaedb62052"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_8_3.png?alt=media&token=bc5be5ec-0142-4522-8462-65db842e73d1"}]},{"address":"Rua Dos Ferreiros 156","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.650798600096834,"longitude":-16.909769696618504},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG_6431.JPG?alt=media&token=3c6899c9-0e1f-4c79-a7fe-a100e7a74334"},{"type":"text","content":"Livraria Esperança is the oldest book store in Madeira.\nIt opened in 1896 and it was the very first place to exclusively sell books in Madeira.\nIt is still one of the largest in the world of its style.\nIt has about 107000 books displayed by the cover.\n\nThe building where this bookstore is located is a Palace from the 16th century. In the second floor, you can see a ceiling with a golden outline that was the ballroom of the Palace. "},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_9_2.png?alt=media&token=21fa9d9c-4344-48a1-ad33-0642a089484a"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_9_3.png?alt=media&token=e9579c91-cd0e-43dc-be90-4686e4a76812"}]},{"address":"R. São João de Deus 1","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.65089284523271,"longitude":-16.914422839933362},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2F2020-08-08-17-17-37.jpg?alt=media&token=7c88d708-48fa-4a64-9013-cb8ffbb35420"},{"type":"text","content":"Quinta das Cruzes was the last residence of João Gonçalves Zarco, Madeira's discoverer.\nNow-a-days, it is a decorative art museum and the Garden is an Arqueological Park.\nInside the Museum, you can see furniture, silverware and jewellery.\n\nQuinta das Cruzes is opened from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5.30 pm.\n\nYou can visit the garden for free. To visit the museum, it costs 3€ p.p"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_10_2.png?alt=media&token=c66fd52b-d1d4-45b0-ab4a-0d903618cb2f"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_10_3.png?alt=media&token=623e58b4-f097-448e-86db-ea5462890f18"}]},{"address":"Holy Trinity Church","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.137992461778529,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":32.64952614993607,"longitude":-16.913955946077724},"media":[{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2FIMG_6323.JPG?alt=media&token=9c5379c0-c9de-4a74-bad4-f003b078d82b"},{"type":"text","content":"The Holy Trinity Church, best know as the English Church of Funchal, dates from 1822 and it is an Anglican Church.\nIt was the first neo-classic building of Funchal, in order to avoid offending the Catholic population of Funchal.\nAccording to some local historians, the Holy Trinity Church of Funchal was built by the Free Masons as a copy of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.\nIn the dome, inside the church, you can see an All Seeing Eye, a symbol widely used by the Free Masonry.\n\nCheck the program for the concerts in the garden."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_11_2.png?alt=media&token=66777dd1-fccb-45b5-9ef1-6b4a7ca495d7"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FslwTI5aCbHlahIzdRuNr%2Fstop_11_3.png?alt=media&token=7a2862d3-da02-4635-96cb-b920bc8d4803"}]}]