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Church Attractions In Funchal

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Funchal is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 111,892, making it the sixth largest city in Portugal, and has been the capital of Madeira for more than five centuries. Because of its high cultural and historical value, Funchal is one of Portugal's main tourist attractions. It is also popular as a destination for New Year's Eve, and it is the leading Portuguese port on cruise liner dockings.The name is from the Portuguese word funcho and the suffix -al, to denote a plantation of fennel.
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  • 1. Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Monte Funchal
    Monte is a civil parish in the municipality and a suburb of Funchal in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. Locally, the parish is also known as Nossa Senhora do Monte . The population in 2011 was 6,701, in an area of 18.59 km². Monte is located a few kilometres east of Funchal.
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  • 2. Holy Trinity Church Funchal
    The cult of the Holy Spirit , also known as the cult of the Empire of the Holy Spirit , is a religious sub-culture, inspired by Christian millenarian mystics, associated with Azorean Catholic identity, consisting of iconography, architecture, and religious practices that have continued in many communities of the archipelago as well as the broader Portuguese diaspora. Beyond the Azores, the Cult of the Holy Spirit is alive in parts of Brazil and pockets of Portuguese settlers in North America. The cult of the Holy Spirit involves traditional rituals and religious celebrations of these faith communities. In its original sense, cult referred to an accepted religious practice, in sharp contrast to the term's modern, negative connotation. Devotion to the Holy Spirit is part of classical Catholi...
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  • 3. Igreja de Sao Pedro Funchal
    The Fort of the Church São Mateus da Calheta , also referred to as the Forte da Igreja , are the coastal ruins of a 16th-century fort situated in the civil parishof São Mateus da Calheta, municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, on the Portuguese island of Terceira, in the archipelago of the Azores. It was destroyed, along with the church, in 1893 during a cyclone; while the church was eventually reconstructed some years later , the fort was abandoned and left to ruin.
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