Experience
Funchal Cultural Walk
The city from above itself.
On foot, from the Old Town up to the viewpoints most visitors never climb to. The city reads differently once you are looking down on it.
TOWVIE
- Highest point
- 210 m
- Length
- Half day
- Stops
- 03
- Price
- 25 €
Where the road takes you.
Not a timetable. The island decides that on the morning. This is the shape of the day and what waits at each height.
01/ 03·8 m
Old Town
Photograph by Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0
01/ 038 m
Old Town
01/ 038 m Where the city started, and the painted doors that got it noticed again.
02/ 03150 m
The climb
02/ 03150 m The gradient is the history. The city grew upward because there was nowhere else to go.
03/ 03210 m
The viewpoints
03/ 03210 m Funchal laid out below in one piece, harbour to ridge, which is the only way to understand its shape.
The practical half.
What to bring
- Shoes for a climb on cobbles
- Water
- A hat in summer
If the weather turns
Funchal shrugs off most rain. If it is heavy we spend longer inside the parts of the city that reward it.
Where we meet
We meet in the Old Town. No van on this one.
Hold the date.
A Nossa IlhaBoarding pass
NI 76
25 €per person
- Length
- Stops
- Class
Other days out.
Photograph by
Leo-setä CC BY 2.0 · Dietmar Rabich CC BY-SA 4.0 · Karelj CC BY-SA 4.0 · H. Zell CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bjørn Christian Tørrissen CC BY-SA 3.0 · Alexander Baxevanis CC BY 2.0 · Bex Walton from London, England CC BY 2.0