Quinta das Cruzes Museum
Hilltop manor museum of decorative arts, with sugar-crate furniture and a garden of carved old stones.
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This guide to the Quinta das Cruzes Museum in Funchal, Madeira, starts with the house João Gonçalves Zarco began in the fourteen hundreds and the sugar fortune that made his island rich. It follows the trade across the Atlantic to Brazil and back, and looks at what Madeiran carpenters did with the timber that arrived in Funchal. Best heard in the furniture rooms, near the dark hardwood chests.
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