Monte Toboggan, Church of Our Lady of Monte - Madeira

Monte is a village practically built into Funchal on the island of Madeira, on a hillside above the capital.
In Funchal, Madeira, on a small hillside, steps lead to a small, snow-white-walled church. In the side chapel of the Church of Our Lady, the last Hungarian king and Austrian emperor, Charles IV, rests, who spent the last six months of his life in the nearby Quinta do Monte villa.
Charles IV is one of the few Habsburg monarchs who married for love. He and his wife, Queen Zita, who was born 125 years ago, were crowned in the Matthias Church on December 30, 1916, in the midst of the fury of World War I. The queen, who also learned the recipe for paprika chicken for the Hungarians, fought for the Monarchy until the moment of its collapse. Encouraged by Zita, Charles first attempted to retake the Hungarian throne in March 1921, and then in October they attempted an armed coup d'état. After this failed, they were taken to the Portuguese island of Madeira.
The exiled monarch, Charles IV, died of the Spanish flu on April 1, 1922. A plaque on the wall of the Madeira church commemorates his memory, but only his body rests here - the heart of the beatified monarch is kept in the Muri Abbey in Switzerland. The heart of Zita, who died at the age of 97 and was buried in Vienna, was also placed here. The queen did not abdicate the throne until her death, taught all her children to pray in Hungarian, and raised her firstborn son, Otto, to be the heir to the throne.