Casa Museu Cristóvão Colombo

The house where, according to oral tradition, Christopher Columbus lived after marrying Filipa Moniz: two early-16th-century Gothic-arched windows open in its north wall, and the present ensemble on Travessa da Sacristia was unified by works in the 18th and 19th centuries. The museum opened in 1989 and was redesigned in 2004 around Portuguese and Spanish expansion, with a space devoted to the Dutch colonial empire and part of the treasure of the Slot ter Hooge, the VOC ship wrecked off the north of the island in 1724; also a late-15th-century Iberian processional cross and an early-17th-century Japanese missal stand. Columbus called again at Porto Santo in 1498. Hours: weekdays 10am–12.30pm and 2–5.30pm, Sunday 10am–1pm, closed Mondays and holidays; fee on site.