The Original Madeira Island News Blog
Last weekend the “Associação de Investigação e Divulgação de Fornos de Cal” promoted a traditional harvest of wheat in São Vicente, in one of the few areas of land devoted to this crop on the island. Joel Freitas, principal promoter of the initiative, explained that the work of the ............
The current Porto Santo ferry, the second Lobo Marinho, inaugurated May 31 2003, has just passed the three million passenger mark over its ten years of operation. Up to May 28 this year, the ferry had carried 3,110,954 passengers between Madeira and Porto Santo – over 3,262 trips.The best ............
Pestana Group yesterday inaugurated another hotel on Porto Santo. According to Alberto João Jardim, attending the occasion, said that the opening of the new Pestana Colombos should be considered a "miracle", after the project was stalled in 2009 due to financial difficulties of the previous ............
The new stretch of Rua Simplício dos Passos Gouveia, parallel to the Estrada Monumental, between the Rotunda do Lido and the Jardim Panorâmico (Baía Azul) opened to traffic on the 3rd of July. At the same time Câmara Municipal do Funchal (CMF) confirmed that the first phase of the recovery of ............
The official holiday yesterday (July 1st – “Madeira Day”) marks the date when Portugal granted autonomy to the island (in 1976), not to be confused with Portugal Day (10th June) which commemorates the death of national literary icon Luís de Camões on 10 June 1580. It is an official holiday ............