Fish market Funchal

Farmers Market today

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April 30th 2018
The days are starting to tick away now! A mixed day of sunshine and clouds, mostly clouds so popped along to the Farmers Market, always interesting to see and I think every time I have visited Funchal I am drawn to the market. Unfortunately the smell of the fish gets you first ! By the time we arrived most of the days catch had been sold but there were still scabbard, tuna, snappers, and a ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Madeira » Funchal

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more