Igreja de São João Evangelista do Colégio do Funchal
Seventeenth-century Jesuit church with a stark stone facade and a blaze of gilded Baroque altars inside.
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This guide to the Igreja do Colégio, the Jesuit church of Saint John the Evangelist in Funchal, follows the money behind its gilded interior. It reaches from a royal founding in fifteen sixty-nine to the Jesuits' wine estates, including a cliff-foot vineyard whose Malvasia wine merchants still rave about. Start it on the square, facing the saints in their niches on the facade.
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