Vacation to Portugal
Plan your vacation to Madeira, Portugal
Floral scents fill Madeira's sea-washed air. Bird-of-paradise flowers grow wild; pink and purple fuchsia weave lacy patterns up pastel walls; and jacaranda trees create purple canopies over roads and avenues. The natural attractiveness of this island is compared to no other, through the cliffs that plummet seaward to mountain summits cloaked in silent fog. The magic has captivated travelers for hundreds of years.
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Wine connoisseurs have always savored Madeira's eponymous export, but a sip on this heady elixir provides merely a taste with the island's many delights. Made up of a number of dramatic volcanic peaks rising from your sea around 600 km (373 miles) off of the west coast of Morocco, the city has an alluring, balmy year-round temperature, ensured by warm Atlantic currents. Other draws add the promise of clear skies, the carpets of flowers, the waterfalls that cascade down green canyons, and also the great hiking along the region's famous network of levadas. These irrigation canals have already been adapted into superb walking trails, many passing down the dramatic coast or with an Alpine-like interior of lush woodlands.
Thanks to its position on shipping routes between Europe, Africa, along with the Americas, Madeira spent my childhood years as an important trading post. The British also have strong ties to the city thanks to a 16th-century royal marriage. Today they still flock to Madeira, mainly over winter, similar to other northern Europeans, especially Germans and Scandinavians. In summer, the region is also favored by visitors from mainland Portugal, when an adventurous crowd puts Madeira's magnificent mixture of sun and seascapes to great use. The island even offers some excellent museums, tranquil gardens, along with a range of good restaurants.
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- EXPERIENCING THE OLD AND THE NEW
- EXPERIENCING THE LEVADAS
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- TAKING TO THE ATLANTIC
- When to Go
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