Fodor's Expert Review Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas
This delightful rose-colored museum has been renovated in the style of a 19th-century quinta (country estate). You can find antique furniture, hand-woven carpets, and paintings collected by the Madeirian lawyer and world traveler Frederico de Freitas, who resided here in the early 20th century. Don't miss the adjacent Casa dos Azulejos, a museum dedicated to decorative tiles from Spain, Persia, Turkey, Holland, and Syria that date from medieval times to the 19th century, as well as Portuguese tiles rescued from demolished buildings on the island.