It's a flower? It's a paiting? No, there is just four chairs and a table, with some shadows, in one of the five star hotels of Funchal named CS Madeira.

For many years, the port of Funchal needed a station for boarding and disembarking the thousands of passengers who came in Madeira every year. This image shows a detail of the ongoing work of building the new space that will be ready in the end of this year. With a modern architecture will be a work remarkable.

A funny painting on a wall in the port of Funchal. It was painted by the crew of the cruise ship Albatros which passes through the town several times a year.

In the port there are more paintings some developed and others less so.

Looks like a race between the cruise ships of the MSC Cruisess and Costa Cruises. But it is not. The two ships have just left the port of Funchal and is about to double the Garajau, a nature reserve on the island of Madeira.

Art translated into a pumpkin in a face of happiness to have the edge in the Vision of the Seas passengers in the growing world of cruising.

A yacht in the marina of Funchal, the first built on the island, with a good central location near the city pier

We are in May, next summer, but the weather is crazy. The rain fell instead of the sun. And when that happens, the streams fill the earth and lead accumulated in the sea, painting the blue, brown.

The tower is the cathedral of the city.

A gun in the city. But does not make any puummm... neither put afraid in anyone. Today, their role is merely ornamental, after many, many years ago, have a deterrent against pirates and looters. Stay at the Palácio de S. Lourenço, located in the historic city center and is characterized as a monumental set originally with the dual role of fortress and palace, and considered the best and most impressive example of military and civil architecture of the island of Madeira.

Today it is used as the official residence of the representative of the Portuguese Republic on the island and as headquarters of the Army.

During the winter season of the ship Aidabella passed in Funchal each sundays and mondays, in a week cruising the Atlantic. With passengers mostly german, the ship as the other's Aida Cruises, is characterized by stylized paintings on the hull. In first plane can see the bow of Volcan de Tijarafe, a ferry from Naviera Armas which also makes trips every week between the Canary Islands and the island of Madeira, and between this and Portimão, in Algarve, Portugal.