Description Ponta Do Pargo Tour

With a scheduled departure from the hotel at about 9 am, we will go to the picturesque town of Ribeira Brava, where you will get to know the town centre, possibility to visit the Ethnographic Museum of Madeira, where you will be able to tell much of our old history, entrance fee.

Depending on the day we can visit the Ribeira Brava church.

This church has Manueline, Mannerist and Baroque characteristics and houses a rich collection of paintings, sculptures, gold and silver work and gilded carvings from the 16th and 17th century, making it one of the most important heritage sets in the region, its treasure has been exhibited at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels.

Inside, there are magnificent chandeliers; a collection of 16th and 17th century silver pieces; a monumental image of Our Lady of the Rosary, of Flemish production, dating from around 1520; and panels of Flemish origin representing the Virgin and Child flanked by St. Benedict and St. Bernard. The main chapel is dominated by a magnificent altarpiece of gilded and polychrome carving from the late 17th century.

It is a place not to be missed.

In this place, you can find many souvenir shops, although many are not accessible, it has a lot of exposure outside.

You can have lunch, at this location, contact us for more information about the restaurant, with accessibility and 🚾♿.
At this location you have a public 🚾♿, which you can use.

Stopping time about 1h30 to 2h.

Next stop, place where it is always sunny, well, the old elders say, that it was always sunny in Ponta Do Sol, well, sometimes it rains.

At this place, we will go out to visit the seaside, it is possible to rest a bit and relax. there is a small traditional shop, where we usually have artisans, making their own pieces.

Here is one of the places where more bananas are produced, in our island.

Here it will be possible to go to the 🚾♿.

stopping time about 30m.

following our tour, we will pass by a place kind of obligatory, for those who visit us, it appears on many postcards and social networks. The famous Cascata Dos Anjos, you can stop, to take pictures, if you have a manual chair, ( no electronic equipment ) you can take some pictures under the waterfall.

We go to a small farm in Prazeres, Calheta, called Quinta Pedagógica Dos Prazeres.

It is a small farm where you can see many animals, with an entrance fee of 1€. In this place has a small cafe support, where there are many homemade sweets, liqueurs and olive oils, many of them with several international awards.

Stopping time about 30m to 1h,

We finish our tour in an epic place to see the sunset, the lighthouse of Ponta Do Pargo.

Various pieces of Madeira lighthouses, photographs, documentation and a panel exhibition on the history of the marking of the Madeira region make up this museum centre.

Ponta do Pargo lighthouse stands on a cliff 300 metres above sea level at Ponta da Vigia, the westernmost point of Madeira Island.

In 1999 it was classified as a local cultural heritage site and since 2001 it has had a museum centre, where various items related to Madeira’s lighthouses are exhibited, from photographs to documentation, bringing together in one place the history of these important monuments to the archipelago’s history.

This is one of the favourite places to watch the sunset.

We can dine here in a restaurant with a privileged view.

Then we return to the hotel.

Time back to the hotel 1h30

Accessibility

Lobos Chamber

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Stop To Here: 30M

♿🔴- Accessibility: Problematic (Because of the ground, several uphill / downhill stretches and pavements not lowered, when there is lowering of the existing pavements, it is not enough because electric chairs and scooters can’t go up, we share the road with the traffic).

Wine tasting at Henrique and Henrique Wineries ( Optional )

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Stop To Here: 10M (On Foot ).

♿🟢 – Accessibility: Easy ( Access depends on a lift )

Visit to the Press Museum ( Optional )

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Stop To Here: 5M (Not Applicable, On Foot ).

♿🟢 – Accessibility: Easy ( Access depends on a lift )

Ribeira Brava

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Stop To Here: 20M

♿🟠- Accessibility: Medium ( Because of the ground, it will make the equipment shake, some places there is no lowering of the pavement )

Visit to the Ethnographic Museum of Madeira ( Optional )

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Stop To Here: 15m (On Foot ).

♿🟢 – Accessibility: Easy ( Access depends on a lift )

Ponta Do Sol

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Point To Here: 15M

♿🟠- Accessibility: Medium (Due to the ground, the equipment will shake, places with uphill/downhill slopes, pavements not lowered, when the pavements are lowered, it is not enough for electric chairs and scooters to go up).

Magdalene Of The Sea

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Point To Here: 15M

♿🟠- Accessibility : Medium (Because of the ground, it will make the equipment shake, place with uphill / downhill, pavements not lowered, when there is lowering of the existing pavements, it is not enough because electric chairs and scooters can not climb).

Calheta

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Stop To Here: 15M

♿🔴- Accessibility : Problematic (Because of the ground, pavements are not lowered, when there is a lowering of the existing pavements, it is not enough for electric chairs and scooters to go up, we share the road with traffic, objects such as bins, uphill / downhill).

Pleasures ( Prazeres )

🚐-Driving Time By Car From Last Point To Here: 15M

♿🟠- Accessibility: Medium (Because of the ground, it will make the equipment shake, place with uphill / downhill, pavements not lowered, when there is lowering of the existing pavements, it is not enough because electric chairs and scooters can not climb).