Portugal Madeira

Today Funchal is a major tourist town, with hotels, port, and an international airport Funchal Airport (FNC), located in the nearby municipality of Santa Cruz. Besides the city of Funchal, tourist destinations include: Ribeira Brava, Curral das Freiras, Porto Moniz, Santana, the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO Natural Site, in the center of Madeira Island and the beaches in Porto Santo island. There is also a passenger gondola lift (Funchal Passenger Ropeway), that transports people from the lower section of the city to the suburb of Monte and another that runs between Monte and the Botanical Gardens.

Câmara de Lobos is a municipality, parish and city in the south-central coast of the island of Madeira. Technically a suburb of the much larger capital city of Funchal. Located within the metropolitan zone of Funchal, it is borderd to the east by Funchal, to the west by Ribeira Brava and north by Santana and São Vicent while fronting the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Located some 29 kilometres from Câmara de Lobos is Curral das Freiras is an isolated parish situated in a deep valley and encircled by steep mountain slopes in the mountainous interior of the island. It is know, along with the rest of the island for the cultivation of grapes for the production of Madeira Wine.