São Vicente Caves are situated in São Vicente municipality, in the northern part of Madeira Island. These caves were inaugurated in 1996 and they were the first volcanic caves open to the public in Portugal. It is one of the main tourist attractions in Madeira island. This is a well-known place among local people and […]
Queimadas are an isolated place, 5 km south of Santana, where you can go for a picnic or a walk. To the west of Santana, you can turn into a secondary road, quickly leading into rough pathway that goes up the mountain. After passing bundles of furze, hydrangeas and wild flowers, this pathway leads into […]
The Achada de António Teixeira is also known as Achada do Teixeira and is a public space that pretence to São Jorge parish. This garden it`s surrounded by a marvelous nature with the amazing animals that lives in this place. It`s perfect to walks or just to enjoy the pure air of this fantastic garden.
The wish to endow Madeira with a Botanical garden dates back to the 17th century. That dream finally came true in 1960. For that purpose, Quinta do Bom Sucesso, property of the Reid’s family, was acquired. Madeira’s botanical garden, 3 km away from Funchal, has a privileged geographical location – on the southern slope of […]
Monte Palace Tropical garden is situated at Quinta Monte Palace, which was donated in 1987 by José Berardo Foundation, a private charity. Plants from all over the world enrich this collection of 100,000 species including azaleas, heathers, cycads, and all sorts of trees, as well as a great variety of ferns. The garden’s founder, José […]
The Quinta do Revoredo it`s a huge and beautiful garden which was, in the first place, a cottage in XIX century. It has lots of Dracaena Draco and others interesting trees. This place was a beautiful view to the Desert Islands through the viewpoint. This place permit to the tourist or residents moments to relax […]
This garden is a pleasant place situated in the city centre of Machico. This place is ideal for relaxing and enjoying the views. Besides, there is also a playground, where children can play and amuse themselves.
The Quinta do Arco, situated at Arco de São Jorge parish, has an amazing garden because it has one of the biggest collections of roses in Portugal. This garden has some of the rare roses in the world and lots of them are endangered. This collection of roses is constituted by for over a thousand […]
Quinta das Palmeiras is a mini-zoo and a botanical garden, situated on a hill in the central western part of Porto Santo Island. This botanical garden offers Visitors a vast number of birds and plants, covering an area of 5,380 m2 with luxuriant vegetation.
Jardim do Infante is a beautiful graden, situated in the city centre iof Vila Baleira. In this garden there is a small playground and a statue of Christopher Columbus. Besides, locals and tourists can also see two other statues, very important in Porto Santo history, namely the statue of a man, known as “Barqueiro” and […]
Santana Theme Park is situated in Santana civil parish and was inaugurated in 2004. This park aims at providing visitors wanderful experiences as well as with several attractions. Visitors will have a plenty of things to do and to see. There are shows, events and many attractions. Don´t miss a chance of visiting this […]
At São Roque do Faial parish is the Forest Park of Ribeiro Frio where is possible to watch the Laurel forest flora of Madeira Island and also the bird fauna of the island. In this place we can do lots of walks by the levadas where can visit the Balcões viewpoint or goes to Portela […]
Solar dos Correias Herédia dates back to the XVIII/IX centuries. This Manner belonged to the founder of Ribeira Brava municipality, who was also viscount of this municipality. Nowadays, it is the place of the Town Hall (Câmara Municipal). Inside, there is a magnificent garden, where it is possible to see many endemic species.
Santa Luzia has a beautiful garden situated in the centre of Funchal. This place used to be the Hilton factory, where liquor and sugar was produced. This garden has 13.700 m2 of green areas, including five different themed gardens, namely The Tropical Garden (Jardim Tropical), The Water Garden (Jardim da Água), the Terrace Garden (Jardim […]
Children’s Wall of Hope is the beginning of Flower Festival celebrations.
This amazing festival with a parade and floats exhibits the multiplicity of floral species of Madeira Island.
The Flower Festival is one of the biggest events in Madeira Island. It attracts thousands of locals and tourists each year.
This Quinta is situated at the top of Santa Catarina Park, in Funchal. Quinta Vigia is an amazing place situated in Funchal city. This Quinta offer visitors amazing and panoramic views over the the harbour and city. There is also many endemic species, plants, trees, palm trees and beautiful flowers. Inicially, this Quinta was […]
Quinta dos Jardins do Imperador is a beautiful historical manor house situated in the hilltop of Monte and dates back to the XVIII century. It offer visitors panoramic and fantastic views overlooking Funchal. This house was built by James Gordon, in the XVIII century, who also created a garden and a Malakoff tower, known as […]
Quinta Palmeira is a beautiful garden situated in Santa Luzia civil parish, in Funchal. This garden has a wide variety of exotic flowers, old trees as well as various species of endemic Flora. Quinta Palmeira belongs to Henrique Jaime Welsh, who is a descendent of Harry Hilton (the real owner of Quinta Palmeira).
