Adegas de São Francisco – museu do vinho Madeira (Blandy's Wine Lodge)

The place where the centuries-old story of Madeira wine is told, on Avenida Arriaga: a group of Baroque civil buildings housing the island's oldest wine cellars, from the 17th and 18th centuries, beside the site of the old São Francisco convent demolished in the 19th century. In 1913 the Madeira Wine Association, now the Madeira Wine Company, was founded here, bringing several houses together. The museum follows the wine's journey from vine to transformation and explains the Sercial, Malvasia, Verdelho and Boal grapes; you visit the ageing rooms and the tasting rooms. Included here as heritage