City, Cathedral, Botanical garden, Fortress, Museum, Pebble beach
Funchal is the capital and, with more than 110,000 inhabitants, the largest city of Madeira, which will absorb you with its colonial atmosphere. The city lies in a wide bay in the southeast of the island and, because of its mountainous surroundings, climbs from the sea up the hill to places beyond which the terrain simply cannot go. Funchal is made up of 4 basic units - the historic centre in the middle, the Old Town (Zona Velha) to the east,…
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Village, Valley, Lookout
The picturesque village of Curral des Freiras lies in the valley of the same name, or rather in a place resembling a deep volcanic crater surrounded by forested peaks of steep mountains. The valley floor is not flat, so the village is built on terraces in the steep slopes. The villages in the valley have been cut off from the outside world for a long time, supposedly by nuns fleeing pirate raids during the 16th century. [btn "Compare car…
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Lighthouse, Cliff
Cape Ponta do Pargo and the village of the same name nearby is the westernmost point of Madeira and a popular tourist destination. Ponta do Pargo is a gloriously green area that slopes gently down from the mountains through an agricultural area of pastureland dotted with houses and torn by deep ravines to 400 metre high cliffs that suddenly begin to plummet steeply down into the ocean. [btn "Compare car rental prices - FNC airport" https:/…
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Village, Cliff, Swimming pool
This small town on the northeast coast of Madeira doesn't appear in guidebooks very often, but in our opinion it's not right. Porto da Cruz lies in a wildly undulating landscape, surrounded on three sides by massive cliffs and mountains and on the fourth by the stormy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The beautifully landscaped town is really small, but offers all the necessary tourist services from accommodation to restaurants to a supermarket. …
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