Camara de Lobos is a picturesque fishing village with high cliffs near the city of Funchal Madeira . Winston Churchill loved to paint this village

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Camara de Lobos is believed to be the original landing point for the Portuguese discoverer João Gonçalves Zarco, who is credited with the discovery of the Madeira name, lobos, is a Portuguese derivation for sea-lions, which were the animals discovered by Zarco and his men in the sheltered bay

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Location: Camara de Lobos,Funchal. Portugal
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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