A fishing town of painted boats, ten minutes west of Funchal, that Winston Churchill came to paint.
The name comes from the lobos-marinhos, the monk seals that the first navigators found resting in this bay. The boats still go out at night for espada, the black scabbardfish that lives a kilometre down and is eaten all over the island.
Churchill set up his easel above the harbour in January 1950; the viewpoint keeps his name. Poncha, the island's drink of sugar-cane spirit, honey and lemon, is said to have started with the fishermen here.
A tipCome late in the afternoon, when the boats are pulled up on the shingle and the bars start mixing poncha to order.
- From Funchalabout 15 minutes by car
- Known forblack scabbardfish and poncha
- Churchill's visitJanuary 1950
At the end of the route, in Funchal, four artists draw whatever you bring back from the island: a place, a flower, a word, a set of coordinates.
The outline of the island
Madeira in a single line.