The City Center of Porto Santo
Saying a city center is funny in Porto Santo lol. First of all, there is no city. The island is only 10 kilometers long and a couple of kilometers wide with one town. The town itself is just a small area on the island where some locals live. The town is actually called Vila Baleira. You can find several restaurants and gift shops for tourists. That's pretty much what there is to it really. Here I have some photos of the settlement area.
Here you can see the town from above. From the top of the mountain, the mountain you can see in the photo above. We took a hike there, this will be a separate post soon.
One of the interesting things to see in the town is the house of Christopher Columbus, he actually lived there for some time when he arrived on the Porto Santo island. Nowadays there is a museum inside. Be warned tho, we bought a ticket to go inside but everything is written in Portuguese so you will understand nothing 😅. There is a translation of the exhibition somewhere on the internet but we didn't really want to trouble ourselves with it. So basically we just rushed through the house, saw some objects and pictures and that's it 😀.
Here is the house.
It was forbidden to take photos inside, I took a couple still lol. Out of courtesy to the rule, I'm not going to upload them up here.
Here is the back side of his home.
Here are a couple of more photos I took around the town.
All in all, it's a pretty nice and peaceful location to spend some days of your holiday.
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It does look cute this town/ city center. It’s hard to say either on such a small island.
It does look stunning. Beautiful captures 😊
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! Photos are with two different cameras, I broke mine on that trip 😅
You are welcome 😊
Oh no… that’s painful. I did the same with my DSLR on my trip to Cuba in 2019. Luckily I got end of last year a new one.
The way you are saying that it is small but the way it looks in the pictures is a very beautiful place and at that time one can enjoy a lot by going to such a place and the way we Seeing that the building that is built is also built with a very beautiful pattern. This is a very good place where one can spend his vacations and by seeing such beautiful things he can forget the sorrows of his life and bring peace to his mind.
Sure, its quite perfect fot a vacation. Sunny, gorgeous beach, relatively quiet and calm, even in town.
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That must be a nice little island...but so curious to see inside Mr. Columbus' house🤔 🤔 🤔 but it's okay, I've got some views from that place. Nice one 😍
There were different exhibitions, some ship models and do on, which he used. Mostly we didnt know what we looked at due to language barrier 😀
Wow, what a beautiful place, it took me to the old times, when we have dates tree every where and they were an essential part of that era.
These trees sure are gorgeous ones!
It really looks like a peacefull place, and so lovely!
i also liked a lot the architecture, ,it has a very european style
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Well, its still the Europe 😀. For me, its Mediterrean architecture kind of.
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