Parque de Santa Catarina
Landscaped hillside park over a former cemetery, with a historic chapel, pond and harbour views.
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This guide to Parque de Santa Catarina in Funchal digs beneath its lawns to the century when this slope above the harbour was something else entirely. It follows the Madeiran sculptor Francisco Franco, an early Portuguese modernist, and a December morning in nineteen sixteen when the war reached the bay below. Best heard at the park's seaward edge, looking down over the water.
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