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Museum in the presumed home of Christopher Columbus, devoted to the navigator, his time on the island and the Age of Discovery.
The island’s main church, in the heart of the historic centre, dedicated to the patron saint honoured each late summer at the big village festival.
A 283-metre volcanic cone where an old quarry reveals a spectacular wall of basalt prisms resembling organ pipes.
Viewpoint over the whole bay and Vila Baleira, next to the windmills that once ground the island’s grain.
Listed by UNESCO in 2020, it covers more than 27,000 hectares of protected land and sea and over 2,100 species.
Official websitevisitmadeira.com→Every September, three days of festivities re-enact Columbus’s landing, with a replica caravel, a period market and street shows.
In late August, the arraial honouring the island’s patron saint fills the centre with food stalls, local musicians and a procession.
Since the middle of the 20th century, this stand has served biscuit cones filled with handmade ice cream, a tradition with queues all summer.
Round flatbread baked on a hot stone called the caco, said to have been born on Porto Santo, served warm with garlic butter.
Limpets grilled in their shells with butter, garlic and lemon, the essential starter across the Madeira archipelago.
Beef skewers grilled over a wood fire and escarpiada, a local cornmeal flatbread cooked on a hot stone.