Walking around the Zona Velha, or Old Town in Funchal, you will notice that many of the doors feature art work of various kinds – mostly paintings, but some other forms of art as well. These works are part of the Projecto artE pORtas abErtas, or ArT of opEN doors project, a scheme that aims to “open” the doors of Funchal to art… and give new life to old, dilapidated doors, often of abandoned and forgotten buildings. Here is just a small selection of the photos Jan and I took of those decorative doors.
Obviously I couldn’t possible resist taking a photo of the following door… colourful artwork and one of my favourite things combined!
Here are some of my favourites. For a few, I took close up photos of the various details because a photo of the entire door just didn’t do it justice.
Have you ever been to Funchal? Which is your favourite painted door?
Confuzzledom 
Beautiful door arts 🙂
Great pics 🙂
These are wonderful! I love the books one best of all. I’ve never been to Funchal, but I think I’d like to.
The books one is my favourite too… along with the cute animals one.
I love this! I wish more cities got in on projects like this.
They should… the door to my building could use something like this!
Oh wow, I have never been there but now I want to have a door like that too!
Me too!
Beautiful. We should all paint our doors. 🙂
The dor to my building could use some painting. I wonder what the landylady would say? 😀
this is such an awesome project! I love doorways/doors as they are all so different.
Wow ,those are incredible – love the little prince one (tho I may be the only person who never liked that book) and the book one!
I read The Little Prince in German and found it quite boring. I love the illustrations from it though, and those postcards with quotes. It has some good lines, but the bits in between the quotable lines bored me.
Those are gorgeous! I love public art like this. The bookcase one in particular struck my fancy, as did the one with the marine wildlife – although, honestly, the turtle is a tad creepy looking!
I loved the book case… I specifically ran down that street to get a photo of it 😀