Quinta do Monte, Cultural heritage villa in Monte, Portugal

Quinta do Monte is a six-hectare estate whose single-storey manor house, built around 1825 in Regency style, is painted yellow with red corner quoins and window surrounds. Arched openings framed in red face a lawn bordered by low green hedges, and a small red-roofed tower rises at the left end of the low tiled roof.

The estate was first recorded in 1784 as a wine property. Around 1825 the British consul James Dempster Webster Gordon had the present Regency-style manor house built, and from 1860 Russell Manners Gordon turned the grounds into a botanical park. On 18 February 1922 the exiled Emperor Karl I of Austria moved in with Empress Zita and six of their children; he died there of pneumonia on 1 April 1922.

The quinta reflects a blend of traditional Madeiran building methods and European design influences visible in its stone structures and garden arrangements. Visitors can observe how local construction techniques merge with foreign aesthetic choices throughout the terraced grounds and architectural details.

The estate is accessible by public transport from Funchal, with guided tours available through the interior spaces and gardens. Wear sturdy footwear as the grounds feature many stairs and slopes, particularly throughout the garden areas.

The garden's rose garden and the Torre Malakoff, a former tool shed turned lookout tower on a retaining wall, were both named after Aimable Pélissier, Duke of Malakoff, the French commander who took the Malakoff fort at Sevastopol. The Rocha Machado family later added a chapel on the grounds in memory of Emperor Karl, who died there in 1922.