{"id":61514,"date":"2026-10-30T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&#038;p=61514"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:35:18","slug":"santa-cruz-madeira","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/fr\/attractions-to-visit\/santa-cruz-madeira\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00c0 l\u2019est de Funchal, sur la c\u00f4te sud de Mad\u00e8re, Santa Cruz est l\u2019une des plus anciennes villes de l\u2019\u00eele. Les explorateurs y trouv\u00e8rent d\u2019anciens troncs et \u00e9rig\u00e8rent une croix qui donna son nom au lieu. Les portails gothiques et le fort maritime gardent la m\u00e9moire de ses origines. Aujourd\u2019hui, la municipalit\u00e9 abrite \u00e9galement l\u2019a\u00e9roport de l\u2019\u00eele et les \u00eeles sauvages Desertas, au large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La croix des explorateurs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peupl\u00e9e d\u00e8s les premi\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies de l\u2019\u00eele, Santa Cruz devint le si\u00e8ge d\u2019une municipalit\u00e9 en 1515, sous le roi Manuel. L\u2019\u00e9glise m\u00e8re du Sauveur, construite \u00e0 partir d\u2019une chapelle de 1533, conserve un portail gothique. Sur le rivage se dresse le fort de S\u00e3o Fernando, datant du XVIIe si\u00e8cle, construit pour surveiller la c\u00f4te. Le march\u00e9 municipal des ann\u00e9es 1960 est orn\u00e9 de panneaux peints par des artistes locaux. Autrefois, les bergers de la paroisse portaient les barretes de orelhas, bonnets de laine \u00e0 rabats qui restent l\u2019embl\u00e8me artisanal de la ville ; le groupe folklorique joue toujours des petits instruments \u00e0 cordes de l\u2019\u00eele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mer, \u00eeles et plaine de l\u2019a\u00e9roport<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La ville fait face \u00e0 l\u2019Atlantique et \u00e0 sa plage de galets. La municipalit\u00e9 s\u2019\u00e9tend vers l\u2019est, \u00e0 travers la plaine de l\u2019a\u00e9roport, jusqu\u2019aux r\u00e9serves naturelles du littoral de Garajau et des \u00eeles Desertas, visibles par temps clair. Les villages artisanaux des collines font \u00e9galement partie de la municipalit\u00e9 : Camacha, c\u00e9l\u00e8bre dans toute l\u2019\u00eele pour son vannerie, et Cani\u00e7o, au-dessus de la mer. Les jardins et les rues de la capitale, <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/fr\/a-visiter\/regions-portugal\/madere-regions-portugal\/ile-madere\/funchal\/\">Funchal<\/a> se trouvent \u00e0 quelques minutes de route vers l\u2019ouest, tandis que les anciennes terres de <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/fr\/a-visiter\/regions-portugal\/madere-regions-portugal\/ile-madere\/machico\/\">Machico<\/a> se prolongent vers l\u2019est.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c0 voir<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>L\u2019\u00e9glise m\u00e8re du Sauveur et son portail gothique<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Le fort de S\u00e3o Fernando au-dessus de la plage<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Le march\u00e9 municipal et ses panneaux peints<\/li>\n\n\n<li>L\u2019art de la vannerie \u00e0 Camacha<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Les vues sur les \u00eeles Desertas au large<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Informations pratiques<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Cruz se trouve sur la c\u00f4te sud de Mad\u00e8re, \u00e0 quelques minutes de route \u00e0 l\u2019est de Funchal et pr\u00e8s de la plaine de l\u2019a\u00e9roport. La plage de galets et le littoral atlantique sont expos\u00e9s au vent : pr\u00e9vois une veste coupe-vent et consulte les sites officiels avant de partir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Cr\u00e9dit photo : Hohe Atlantikwellen brechen sich am Strand von Santa Cruz (Madeira), par Holger Uwe Schmitt \u2014 CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old cross town east of Funchal, where the discoverers raised the cross that named it, with a sixteenth-century church, a fort and the island&#8217;s airport.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61515,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074],"tags":[1073],"attraction-categ":[1056],"localidade":[1320],"content-type":[],"grupo-de-experiencias":[],"experiencia-tipo":[],"regioes_turisticas_term":[119],"class_list":["post-61514","to-visit","type-to-visit","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","tag-city","attraction-categ-city","localidade-santa-cruz","regioes_turisticas_term-madeira"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Santa Cruz \u2014 Madeira | Real Dreams<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Santa Cruz, Madeira: the old town of the discoverers&#039; cross, the church of the Saviour, the fort by the beach and the airport of the island.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/fr\/a-visiter\/santa-cruz-madeira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Santa Cruz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Santa Cruz, Madeira: the old town of the discoverers&#039; cross, the church of the Saviour, the fort by the beach and the airport of the island.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/fr\/a-visiter\/santa-cruz-madeira\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Real Dreams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/santa-cruz-madeira.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/\",\"name\":\"Santa Cruz \u2014 Madeira | Real Dreams\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/santa-cruz-madeira.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-30T11:35:18+00:00\",\"description\":\"Santa Cruz, Madeira: the old town of the discoverers' cross, the church of the Saviour, the fort by the beach and the airport of the island.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/attractions-to-visit\\\/santa-cruz-madeira\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/santa-cruz-madeira.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realdreams.pt\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/santa-cruz-madeira.webp\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1067,\"caption\":\"The Atlantic at Santa Cruz, Madeira. 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