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Funchal

Portugal · 31 quests

History

3 quests
Funchal Cathedral, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Funchal Cathedral
Its ceiling is carved from island cedar
Farmers' Market, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Farmers' Market
Its tiled walls hide a market from 1940
Universo de Memórias, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Universo de Memórias
An old station now holds a world of toys

Nature

2 quests
Madeira Botanical Garden, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Madeira Botanical Garden
Rows of plants turn the hillside into patterns
Pico do Areeiro, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Pico do Areeiro
A stone path climbs above the clouds

Art

5 quests
Sacred Art Museum, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Sacred Art Museum
A bishop’s palace holds art from Flanders
Open Doors, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Open Doors
Old doors here carry paintings instead of signs
3D Fun Art, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
3D Fun Art
The artwork waits for someone to step inside
Madeira Photography Museum, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Madeira Photography Museum
Old cameras still stand beside the portraits they made
Monte Palace, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Monte Palace
A tiled path leads toward African sculptures

Food

12 quests
Espetada, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espetada
Charcoal leaves the beef dark at the edges
Bolo de mel, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Bolo de mel
Its honey comes from sugar cane
Espetada, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espetada
Garlic and salt meet beef over a wood fire
Espetada, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espetada
Beef hangs from a laurel skewer
Scabbardfish and Banana, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Scabbardfish and Banana
The sweet part is not a sauce
Scabbardfish and Banana, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Scabbardfish and Banana
This fish comes with a sweet surprise
Espetada, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espetada
The skewer is part of the serving
Espada com Banana, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espada com Banana
A deep-sea fish shares the plate with banana
Grilled Limpets, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Grilled Limpets
The shellfish stays in its flat shell
Grilled Limpets, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Grilled Limpets
The grill leaves each limpet in its own shell
Espada com Banana, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espada com Banana
A deep-sea catch sits beside a soft fruit
Espetada, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Espetada
The beef is grilled on a laurel stick

Beach

2 quests
Doca do Cavacas, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Doca do Cavacas
The sea pool begins beneath the road
Praia Formosa, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Praia Formosa
The shore shifts from black sand to smooth pebbles

Sport

3 quests
Estádio da Madeira, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Estádio da Madeira
The football ground is built into the slope
Marítimo, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Marítimo
Its stands climb a steep island hillside
Levada Pavilion, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Levada Pavilion
Basketball is only one game played here

Party

4 quests
Banana's Pub, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Banana's Pub
A long-running pub keeps its evening crowd
Barreirinha Bar, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Barreirinha Bar
Swimmers and drinkers share the same waterfront
Revolucion, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Revolucion
The night is built around what fills the glass
Number Two, Funchal🇵🇹 Funchal
Number Two
The late crowd is local as well as visiting

Portugal

Photo quests in Funchal

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Funchal holds 31 quests across every category the catalogue keeps, and Food is the largest group by some way: twelve of them against five for Art.

Three of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 28 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers 25 of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Funchal quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The three quests in Funchal the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Funchal

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Funchal

How many photo quests are there in Funchal?
31, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (12), Art (5) and Party (4). Among them: Funchal Cathedral, Madeira Botanical Garden and Sacred Art Museum.
What is there to do in Funchal beyond the obvious?
3 of the 31 quests in Funchal are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Funchal holds three at tier 1, three at tier 2 and 25 at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Bolo de mel, Open Doors and Madeira Photography Museum, which fall under Art and Food.
Can you do all the Funchal quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 31 is 9.9 km from the middle of the Funchal list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Funchal quests can you do for free?
28 of the 31 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 31 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Funchal means three quests: Bolo de mel, Open Doors and Madeira Photography Museum.
How do I prove I visited a place in Funchal?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Funchal is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Funchal Cathedral fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Funchal sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.