About Porto Santo Island

  The Porto Santo Island is situated in the vast Atlantic Ocean, on the Madeira Archipelago, at about 50km distance from the Madeira Island, the “pearl of the Atlantic”. The Madeira Archipelago is located at about 1000km distance from Continental Portugal, and is composed by the Madeira Island, by the Porto Santo Island (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… Read more and see photos