On Sunday, the 16th of January the annual animal blessing will take place at Prazeres Church.
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After the flooding of 2010, the Portuguese Government on the mainland approved a big financial support package to repair the damages and prevent further floods. The results are, in many places, cemented river beds and upriver, concrete “combs” in the normally tranquil rivers to stop boulders, trees and other debris…
The “Insular” cookie company, the essential cookie source for the population, moved its installations to the Free Trade Zone in Caniçal long time ago. The space in Town had become too tight; getting the lorries into the Travessa da Malta was already a problem. Cookies are now made in Caniçal,…
This evening a man accompanied by his girlfriend was attacked while walking along Avenida do Mar, near Rua das Fontes.
To celebrate National Day of the Sea, both the lighthouses at Ponta do Pargo and São Jorge will be open to the public tomorrow, the 16th of November from 13:30 - 16:30 on a first come first served basis.
Funchal City Council (CMF), has announced that although it will do everything possible to ensure that the Christmas Market Night goes ahead, they confirmed that with the number of daily Covid-19 cases, both the Mayor of Funchal, Pedro Calado and the Regional Secretary for Health, Pedro Ramos are to meet to discuss and decide whether or not the event will take place this year.
According to a short bulletin released by the Regional Secretary for Education (SRE), six Madeiran schools registered new Covid-19 cases today.
Former Mayor of Funchal, Miguel Silva Gouveia recent biblical social media outburst comes as a reflection of “40 days and 40 nights” after the local authority elections, when he was ousted by Pedro Calado.
Tomorrow, the 4th of November, the Funchal City Council (CMF), through their Urban Gardens and Green Spaces Division, will fell a plane tree (Platanus hispanica) on Rua D. Carlos I, between 8 am and 6 pm.
A presentation took place on board the NRP Douro today commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selvagens Islands Nature Reserve.
An article published in British magazine, 'House & Garden,' promotes Madeira as a destination that has reinvented itself over the last two decades, and an "ideal" post-confinement holiday destination.
The PSD-M deputy to the Assembly of the Republic, Paulo Neves, said today that "for 26 months António Costa's government has not fulfilled its ferry promise."
Today the president of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Portugal, Daulet Batrashev.
The President of the Regional Government announced this morning that, next year, he will open the Sidraria of São Roque do Faial, and after that, another one in Prazeres.
More than two hundred and thirty people made the pilgrimage from Funchal to Machico today.