Casa de Cristóvão Colombo
Museum of Atlantic discovery in a rebuilt house with a surviving wall of Gothic pointed windows.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Casa Colombo in Vila Baleira on Porto Santo starts at one old stone wall and its two pointed windows, and follows the young Christopher Columbus before anyone called him an explorer. It turns on money: Genoese merchant houses, a Madeira sugar order in fourteen seventy-eight, and a Genoa courtroom. Best heard standing on the street side, facing the Gothic windows.
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