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Madeira Island is now on Google Street View
Google Street View is a service that is integrated with Google Maps and has become a very popular webtool. The service allows anyone to view and navigate through the web through the gallery of 360-degree images, taken at street level. Funchal’s streets, most Madeira towns and villages, … regional roads, landscape and even tunnels are … Continue reading
The origins of the Flower Festival
Did you know that the origins of the Flower Festival were born in the “Festival of the Rose”, organized for the first time in 1955 by Ateneu Comercial do Funchal (Funchal’s Commercial Athenaeum), as part of a contest-exhibition of flowers? This event distinguished itself by a dance that signalized the beginning of spring and included … Continue reading
O Poço da Neve – The Well of Snow
Some things in life nowadays seems trivial, but in the past they were unthinkable, … for example ice. With the arrival of refrigerators and other similar devices in our modern times, it has become possible for us to have ice all year-round. Now … imagine yourself on Madeira Island 100 years ago …. how could … Continue reading
