Capela de Nossa Senhora do Loreto (Arco da Calheta)

A sixteenth-century chapel, begun around 1510 as the oratory of the houses of Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara, son of Funchal's second captain. The Renaissance marble holy water font was set here in 1530. The architecture mixes Manueline and Revivalist, the latter above all in the wide rectangular galilee opened on the main front, carried on marble columns with Corinthian capitals. Inside, a painted Way of the Cross and above all an octagonal Mudéjar alfarje ceiling, white and blue, with white and gilded cordage. Classified a Monument of Public Interest.