Solar do Aposento (Ponta Delgada)

A well-off family house from the mid-eighteenth century, at Ponta Delgada, kept in the island's architectural tradition. It was a farming property: the whole ground floor was taken up by stores and wine cellars, next to a press. In the twentieth century a small chapel and extensions near the kitchen were added. The furniture is mostly Madeiran of the nineteenth century — mahogany, til, chestnut — on contemporary English models, the great reference of regional joinery of that century; a second, more eclectic set mixes English and Portuguese pieces of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is also a seventeenth-century oil on canvas of Our Lady with Child, a gilded estofado wooden Saint Anthony from the mid-seventeenth century, and a carved and gilded wooden mirror from a national workshop of the time of Queen Maria I.