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Vacation to Portugal

​Quinta das Cruzes Museum in Funchal Madeira, Portugal

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Now a museum, the Quinta das Cruzes is often a quintessential old Madeiran manor house that includes gardens along with a private chapel. Originally is know for João Gonçalves Zarco, the Portuguese captain who discovered Madeira, it absolutely was remodelled from the 18th century right into a stylish home from the wealthy Lomelino family. The exhibits here examine living of Madeira's well-to-do from your 15th to your 19th century inside 
an aptly aristocratic environment, the high-ceilinged mansion set with priceless antiques from globally.

Pleasant for more information on before or after having a tour on the museum, the reasons are a typically exotic example in the type of garden created with the wealthy within the late 1800s. It's a romantically tranquil oasis of mature trees, pebble-patterned pathways, old-fashioned park benches and beds of sub-tropical plants, most of them labelled. Potted orchids grow from the west wall, throughout the south side stands a little chapel that's normally closed towards the public.
The 11 rooms within the building's top floor form the bulk with the collection. Here room after room filled up with fine furniture, ceramics, tapestry, engravings, oil paintings and jewellery from Europe and beyond give some idea of exactly how rich the merchant classes of Madeira had become from the 18th and 19th centuries. 
Highlights add the 19th-century oils of Madeira, the glyptic collection, some from Roman times, a standard Madeiran quinta bedroom along with a fascinating section focused on Emperor Karl I of Austria, including his priceless Breguet watch.
Things have a bit chunkier downstairs, with massive wood and hunks of silver replacing the curvaceous Chippendale and gentle fans on the upper floor. Top billing here goes on the Caixa de Açucar, literally 'sugar boxes' – hefty cupboards made from your Brazilian hardwood through which sugar imported to Madeira was packed – a fine illustration showing 16th-century recycling. Other highpoints include items from Portugal's far-flung Asian colonies, an accumulation sedan chairs, when the way to get 
across the roadless island in comfort along with a huge assemblage of Portuguese silverware.

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