In a statement, the São Vicente City Council has confirmed that the Christmas Market which is due to be held on the 19th and 20th of December, from 10 am to 8 pm will take place as scheduled.
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Within the scope of the “Porto Santo Sem Lixo Marinho” project, a coastal cleaning campaign will take place during the 14th to the 19th of December. Depending on the number of people who volunteer, this clean-up may also extend to streams and other places where rubbish and marine litter frequently…
The traditional Christmas lights were switched on last night, and for those who were kept in because of the rain, here is a little drone footage of Funchal's brightly lit streets.
The adverse weather has caused damage throughout the region, and reports released on the Civil Protection of Machico's Facebook page, confirm that Rua Marechal Spínola, which serves the Porto da Cruz Sports Centre, is closed as part of the road has collapsed.
Many will have noticed that the lights around Funchal are already undergoing their testing phase. One of this year's new innovative attractions is a 80 metre video screen, that has been set up on the pier in Funchal. The screen, shaped in the form of a tunnel, contains more than a million pixels which light up as people pass through.
Snow may have arrived early, but with little Christmas cheer to look forward to this year, NAMINHATERRA TV channel is currently giving everyone a little taste of Christmas by taking live images of the snow in Pico do Areeiro and accompanying them with Christmas melodies.
With the pandemic under control, the President of Madeira is not taking any unnecessary risks and has announced that to protect the health of the Madeirans and Porto-Santenses there will be no market nights in any of the regions municipalities.
Pictures released show that snow has already fallen on Pico Ruivo and Pico do Areerio this afternoon.
During the inauguration of a new exhibition called 'Blue Light' by Silvestre Pestana at the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, The Mayor of Funchal, Miguel Silva Gouveia, confirmed that the exhibition is the first event promoted and organised by the Funchal municipality as part of the Municipality's candidacy for European Capital of Culture in 2027. The exhibition is open to the public form today until the 20th of February 2021 and is the creation of the Funchal City Council and ArtWorks.
The two defendants in the Monte Tree Tragedy case, Idalina Perestrelo responsible for Urban Environment, Green and Public Spaces, and the head of the Gardens and Green Spaces Division, Francisco Andrade, will find out today whether they are to stand trial and if so, what crimes will be levied against them. Both were accused by the Public Ministry of 13 crimes of negligent homicide and 49 offences of involuntary or negligent physical integrity.
In a press release, LuxStar who are in charge of putting up this year's Christmas lights, have said that work is progressing well, and that they have already started their pre-Christmas testing in certain areas.
Until the 25th of December, all profits from the sale of the Moritz Quartet's track "Dança da Toutinegra" (Dance of the Warbler) will be donated to the Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA), which forms part of Madeira's environmental education programme, which every year offers free lectures, workshops and field trips to the regions schools.
During a Madeira Days Conference, held in São Vincente, criticisms were raised about the state of public gardens and the islands escarpments.
The Regional Secretary for Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Susana Prada, was at Montado da Esperança, parish of São Roque, today, the 11th of November, as the first of the 88,500 plants, shrubs and trees were planted as part of the reforestation of an area covering 45 hectares. These include leafy and indigenous species.