About Madeira Island

  The Madeira Island is situated on the Madeira Archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean at about 1000km distance from Continental Portugal. This archipelago is composed by the Madeira Island, by the Porto Santo Island, also known as the Golden Island, by the three uninhabitable Desert Islands and also by the natural reserve of the “Selvagens” (Wild) Islands. This territory was once known by Romans and Phoenicians, yet the official discovery was in 1418, first with the Porto Santo island by the navigators João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, and on the… Read more and see photos