Towns & villages · 11 m above the sea
Mercado dos Lavradores
Funchal's 1940 Art Deco market, where flower sellers and the fish hall set the morning
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The place
Flower sellers in traditional dress and fruit stalls stacked with custard apples get the camera attention, but the ground-floor fish hall, where scabbardfish and tuna are auctioned off, is the part that's genuinely unglamorous and real. It has run this way since 1940 and is still where a lot of Funchal restaurants buy their produce. Go early and it's a working market first, photo op second.
When to come
Friday or Saturday morning, when the farmers' stalls are fullest
Worth knowing
- Closed Sundays; quietest on weekday afternoons
- The downstairs fish hall is worth a look even if you're not buying
- Light haggling over fruit prices is normal, keep it good-natured
- Rua Brigadeiro Oudinot / Largo dos Lavradores, central Funchal