September 15, 2011
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Funchal – the capital city of Madeira known as Little Lisbon | Portugal Updated: September 15, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Funchal is the capital of subtropical Portuguese island of Madeira, which lies about 600 km from the African coast. The historic core of the city boasts beautiful government buildings, private houses with […]
Tags: arriaga, beach-promenade, ceiling-decorations, city, coastal-side, cruise-ships, dark-interior, funchal, gilded-altar, gothic-arches, iron-balconies, island, madeira, merchant-ships, narrow-streets, picturesque-port, portugal, portuguese-island, private-houses, splendid-villas, steep-slopes, tourist-center, traffic-congestion, transport-hub, volcanic-peaks
Categories: Nature, Portugal, Sights
July 25, 2011
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Madeira – explore beautiful nature in the Pearl of the Atlantic | Portugal Updated: July 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Madeira – “Island of Flowers”, “Pearl of the Atlantic,” “Green Paradise”. It’s a beautiful small island (just 22 km wide and 57 km long). Thanks to its mountainous landscape it gives the impression […]
Tags: beautiful-nature, city-of-madeira, exotic-flowers, green-paradise, irrigation-canals, island, island-of-flowers, land-of-rest, madeira, madeira-funchal, magnificent-mountain-peaks, mountainous-landscape, nature, paul-da-serra, pearl-of-the-atlantic, picturesque-streets, porto-santo-madeira, portugal, savage-islands, seaside-towns, subtropical-climate, wild-island, wild-nature
Categories: Nature, Portugal
October 28, 2010
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The Laurisilva forest of Madeira is a living fossil — the largest surviving tract of laurel forest in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage ecosystem that once covered much of southern Europe 15–40 million years ago but now survives almost exclusively on the Atlantic island of Madeira, where it cloaks the island’s mountainous interior in […]
Tags: atlantic-islands, azores, canaries-islands, endemic-species, ferns, flowering-plants, forest, island, laurel-forest, laurisilva, machico, madeira, madeira-portugal, natural-heritage, nature, pico-do-arieiro, pico-ruivo, pigeon, plant-diversity, ponta-delgada, portugal, relict, rich-fauna, theme-park, unesco, vascular-plants
Categories: Nature, Portugal
April 27, 2010
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Portugal is the romance of Europe’s western edge — a country of dramatic Atlantic coastlines, golden limestone beaches, medieval hilltop castles, and the melancholic strains of fado music drifting through the narrow alleyways of Lisbon’s Alfama district at midnight. Hemmed in on one side by Spain and on the other by the vast, empty Atlantic, […]
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Categories: All Countries, Portugal
