Capela da Madre de Deus (Caniço)

One of the island's oldest Marian churches, built in the first half of the sixteenth century near an estate called Fazenda das Moças, which belonged to the sisters Isabel Álvares and Leonor Álvares. The style is Manueline; the Renaissance-inspired carved wooden altarpiece and the chancel are what to look at. The chapel is open for visits and for mass, nearly five centuries after it was built.