A journey between
heaven and earth
Above all enjoy the ride
From the cable car, hovering over the city, where buildings rise alongside gardens and kitchen-gardens, you can enjoy Funchal’s amphitheatre and bay in a scenario of blues, greens and oranges.
- Opening
- Last Boarding
- Travel duration: 15 to 25 minutes each way.
- Route: Funchal-Monte: 3200 meter incline distance
Terms of use
- Minimum capacity 4 people
- Maximum capacity 6 people
Ticket
Ticket Teleférico do Funchal
The Experience
The city of Funchal is recognized as Garden City, result of the familiarity of the green spaces with the houses, with great floristic wealth, in a symbiosis between the countryside and the city. This landscaping and environmental harmony provides pleasantness to the experience of the cable car ride.
Watch the city depart, and climbing the slopes approach a steep nature fitted by the Atlantic blue. From the city to the top of Monte parish, see also the natural beauty of the Madeira, its orography and geology.
As you go up the environment will evolve and the urbane mesh will be substituted by verdant slopes, hills and valleys, in a journey with the city and the sea in background. The ride ends in Monte, town with a scenery and surrounding romantic, where it can be visited:
Travel between Funchal and Monte location with landscape and romantic surroundings.
Monte
The parish of Our Lady of Mount was established in 1565, is now designated only by Monte. Mount is one of the nicest places in Madeira. With a prime location in the amphitheater of Funchal, the village of Monte, located about 9 km from the center. and 550 m above sea level is undoubtedly one… Read more »
View Monte
in pictures.
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Points of Interest
Monte
Babosas Belvedere
Centro Interpretativo do Comboio do Monte
Church of Our Lady of the Monte
Fountain of the Virgin
Infante D. Henrique School
Levada dos Tornos (a walk along a watercourse)
Monte Municipal Park
Monte Railway
Quinta do Monte Gardens
Quinta do Terreiro da Luta
Quinta do Terreiro da Luta
Santuário da Nossa Senhora Da Paz (junto à Quinta do Terreiro da Luta)
Tomb of the Last Emperor of Austria
Typical wicker toboggans
Location
The base station is located in the garden of Almirante Reis, in the historic area of Funchal, with the top, in Monte, halfway between Largo das Babosas and Jardins do Monte. This location has a pedestrian correspondence with the top terminal of the Jardim Botânico Cable Car and is not far from the Monte station of the rack railway of the Comboio do Monte, extinct in 1943.