In this category we will show all of our blog posts having specific landmarks as the objective. These landmark all have a specific location. We’ll do our best to give you a link to a google map also. A landmark could be a monument, a historic building, or a natural landmark. For example one of the picos of Madeira, or the lavapools of Porto Moniz. You can just pick one of these and drive or walk there. If the landmark is a museum or a cultural heritage site, we’ll tell you what it costs and when are the opening hours. You’ll find a lot of landmarks along the North Coast. That’s because…well…we have a preference.
A rainy day on Madeira? Finally on holidays on Madeira and waking up to a rainy day ? Madeira is known for its year around good climate, but it does rain as well. Due to the many micro-climates, it may not rain everywhere on Madeira, so do check the webcams for dry or sunny weather. …
Madeira Folklore: dancing is a central element of Madeira culture as well as music and singing. There are several dance style on Madeira, imported successively by the different ethnic groups calling Madeira their home. Madeira was an important port on much used nautical trade routes. Many stopped in Funchal and some stayed on… Origins of …
Ancient means of transportation around the Island of Madeira Every terrain has its specific means of transportation. Madeira’s abrupt and rough geography long dictated the various way in which to travel or move around the island. The early settlers, some 600 years ago, mostly traveled by foot and carried their loads themselves. Slowly, animals helped …
Madeira is a volcanic island with a very rough landscape and plunging cliffs. Albeit being a rather small island, it boosts a total of 7 scenic cable cars. Two of them are well known to Madeira visitors, namely the cable car linking the city of Funchal to Monte and the one linking Monte to the …
O Brinquinho – a traditional music instrument on Madeira A brinquinho (or little toy if one translates literally) is a very popular instrument on Madeira. Tourists and locals alike fondly think of this instrument. It leaves no one untouched. The curious instrument consists of small dolls dressed in traditional dress. The figures carry a small …
Cristiano Ronaldo – Part Six Cristiano Ronaldo is Madeira’s miracle son. He no longer needs to be introduced. Please follow these links if you missed the previous CR7 – Facts, Figures and Trivia parts: part one, part two, part three, part four and part five. Fact 20 On 9 June 2010, Madame Tussauds London unveiled …
Faja de Cabo Girao The Rancho Cable Car connects the viewpoint “Rancho” to the Fãja de Cabo Girão. This Fãja lays just below the emblematic and well-known highest vertical drop cliff of Europe, Cabo Girão. So after a visit of Cabo Girão we recommend an excursion down to the fields seen from the cliff. Rancho …
A German Painter in Madeira: Max Römer Max Wilhelm Römer saw the light on November 22nd, 1878 in Hamburg, Germany. His wife became ill and upon the recommendation of a Danish friend, he decided to move to Madeira due to its mild climate. He packed belongings, wife and children onto the Brazilian steamboat “Curvello” with …
This remote area of cultivated land adjacent to the ocean, once unknown, is now a popular place on Madeira. Unlike the Fajã da Quebrada Nova in Achadas da Cruz, the Fajã dos Padres can be a really busy place in Summer. Fajã dos Padres lies by the sea, at the bottom of a smooth, vertical …
The “Sorcerer of Calheta” and the Bailinho da Madeira If you have once been to Madeira or even to Portugal and partook in popular festivities, you must have heard the “Bailinho da Madeira” music and maybe even the song. Click play here below to listen to the Bailinho da Madeira while reading this post. O …
