Funchal

Funchal is the capital and main city of the autonomous region of Madeira, on the island of , in its south between Santa Cruz and Câmara de Lobos. In 2021, it was home 106,000 people.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio do Marítimo and Museu CR7.

Stadium
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The , formerly and often still referred to as Estádio dos Barreiros, is a football located in the city of Funchal, , , and is owned by Club Sport Marítimo, where it plays its matches.

Museum
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The is a dedicated to Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's trophies. It is located in Ronaldo's birthplace, the city of Funchal on the Portuguese island of .

Garden
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is a botanical garden in Funchal, , opened to the public in 1960. The area was previously part of an estate belonging to the family of William Reid, founder of Reid's Hotel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Câmara de Lobos and Santo António.

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is a municipality and town in the southern coast of the island of Madeira, divided in 5 freguesias. A de facto suburb of the much larger capital city of Funchal, it is one of the larger population centres and an extension of the Funchal economy.

Suburb
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is a civil parish in the northwestern part of the municipality of Funchal on the island of Madeira. It is located about 3 km northwest of central Funchal.

Suburb
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is a civil parish in the municipality of Funchal, on the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 26,482, in an area of 7.95 km².

Funchal

Latitude
32.6497° or 32° 38′ 59″ north
Longitude
-16.9087° or 16° 54′ 31″ west
Population
112,000
Elevation
280 metres (919 feet)
IATA airport code
FNC
United Nations Location Code
PT FNC
Open location code
8C45J3XR+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25255071
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2267827
Wiki­data ID
Q25444
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Funchal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Funchal”
  • Albanian: “Funchal”
  • Amharic: “ፉንቻል”
  • Arabic: “فُنْشال”
  • Arabic: “فونشال”
  • Aragonese: “Funchal”
  • Armenian: “Ֆունշալ”
  • Asturian: “Funchal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Funchal”
  • Azerbaijani: “Funşal”
  • Basque: “Funchal”
  • Belarusian: “Фунчал”
  • Belarusian: “Фуншал”
  • Bengali: “ফানশাল”
  • Bengali: “ফুঁশাল”
  • Bulgarian: “Фуншал”
  • Catalan: “Funchal”
  • Cebuano: “Funchal”
  • Chechen: “Фуншал”
  • Chinese: “Funchal”
  • Chinese: “丰沙尔”
  • Chinese: “豐沙爾”
  • Cornish: “Funchal”
  • Croatian: “Funchal”
  • Czech: “Funchal”
  • Danish: “Funchal”
  • Dutch: “Funchal”
  • Esperanto: “Funchal”
  • Estonian: “Funchal”
  • Faroese: “Funchal”
  • Finnish: “Funchal”
  • French: “Funchal”
  • French: “Peyrot de Monluc”
  • Ga: “Funchal”
  • Galician: “Funchal, Madeira”
  • Galician: “Funchal”
  • Georgian: “ფუნშალი”
  • German: “Funchal”
  • German: “Gemeinde Funchal”
  • Greek: “Φουνσάλ”
  • Greek: “Φουντσάλ”
  • Gujarati: “ફંચલ”
  • Hausa: “Funchal”
  • Hebrew: “פונצ’ל”
  • Hebrew: “פונשל”
  • Hebrew: “פוּנשָל”
  • Hindi: “फुंचल”
  • Hindi: “फुंचाल”
  • Hungarian: “Funchal”
  • Icelandic: “Funchal”
  • Ido: “Funchal”
  • Indonesian: “Funchal”
  • Interlingue: “Funchal”
  • Irish: “Funchal”
  • Italian: “Funchal”
  • Japanese: “フンシャル”
  • Javanese: “Funchal”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ಯೂಚಲ್”
  • Kashmiri: “فُنچَل”
  • Kazakh: “Фуншал”
  • Kirghiz: “Фуншал”
  • Korean: “푼샬”
  • Lao: “ຟຸນຊາວ”
  • Latvian: “Funšala”
  • Latvian: “Funšāla”
  • Ligurian: “Funchal”
  • Lithuanian: “Funchal”
  • Lithuanian: “Funšalis”
  • Lombard: “Funchal”
  • Low German: “Funchal”
  • Luxembourgish: “Funchal”
  • Macedonian: “Фуншал”
  • Malay: “Funchal”
  • Maltese: “Funchal”
  • Manipuri: “ꯐꯨꯟꯆꯥꯜ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯐꯨꯟꯆꯜ”
  • Marathi: “फुंकल”
  • Mazanderani: “فونچال”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Funchal”
  • Mingrelian: “ფუნშალი”
  • Moksha: “Фуншал”
  • Mongolian: “Фуншал”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “فونشال”
  • Northern Frisian: “Funchal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Funchal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Funchal”
  • Norwegian: “Funchal”
  • Novial: “Funchal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Funchal”
  • Oromo: “Funchal”
  • Ossetian: “Фуншал”
  • Panjabi: “ਫੁੰਚਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Funchal”
  • Persian: “فونچال”
  • Persian: “فونشال”
  • Polish: “Funchal”
  • Portuguese: “Fn”
  • Portuguese: “FUN”
  • Portuguese: “Funchal, Ilha da Madeira”
  • Portuguese: “Funchal”
  • Portuguese: “Fx”
  • Portuguese: “FX”
  • Portuguese: “Município do Funchal”
  • Pushto: “فنچل”
  • Pushto: “فونشال”
  • Romanian: “Funchal”
  • Russian: “Фуншал”
  • Sardinian: “Funchal”
  • Scots: “Funchal”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Funchal”
  • Serbian: “Funchal”
  • Serbian: “Фунчал”
  • Serbian: “Фуншал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Funchal”
  • Sicilian: “Funchal”
  • Silesian: “Funchal”
  • Sinhala: “ෆන්චල්”
  • Slovak: “Funchal”
  • Slovenian: “Funchal”
  • Somali: “Funchal”
  • Spanish: “Funchal”
  • Swahili: “Funchal”
  • Swedish: “Funchal”
  • Tajik: “Фуншал”
  • Tamil: “பஞ்ச்சல்”
  • Tatar: “Фуншал”
  • Telugu: “ఫుంచాల్”
  • Thai: “ฟุงชาล”
  • Turkish: “Funchal”
  • Ukrainian: “Фуншал”
  • Urdu: “فنچل”
  • Urdu: “فونشال”
  • Uzbek: “Funshal”
  • Venetian: “Funchal”
  • Vietnamese: “Funchal (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Funchal”
  • Volapük: “Funchal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Funchal”
  • Welsh: “Funchal”
  • Western Frisian: “Funchal”
  • Western Panjabi: “فنچال ،پرتگال”
  • Wu Chinese: “丰沙尔”
  • Yoruba: “Funchal”
  • Yue Chinese: “豐沙爾”
  • “Funchal”

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