Since April 2024, a volunteer (our Ursula) is at the Gorgulho/Lido Bus stop in the morning, assisting the tourists with bus information, thereby helping the bus drivers and residents as well. The tourists are nudged to have money or Giro cards in their hand when they enter the bus; they…
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Recently, someone placed a graffiti in the hotel area on the Lido Ramp „Rampa do Lido“ (leading, by the way, up to a very good Indian restaurant). The City Hall service cannot have eyes everywhere, so we used “Funchal Alerta” (https://funchalalerta.funchal.pt/) to inform the city about the „artwork“. The platform…
We visited the Instituto Oftalmologico Muñoz Trindade IOMT (https://www.facebook.com/iomt.pt/) clinic in Funchal, situated at the back of the LaVie/Plaza. Drs. Nuno Silva (from the Azores) and Fabio Trindade (Madeira) showed us the installations and the equipment they have. With altogether four doctors working there, they now pay off a (probably…
This morning, JM received photographic evidence of a couple of foreigners camping in the heart of Funchal.
Two foreigners, aged 28 and 29, were assaulted by a knifed assailant this morning in Funchal.
The Arts Marathon, organised by the Conservatory – Professional School of the Arts of Madeira, Eng. Luiz Peter Clode, is back in the capital of Madeira on Saturday the 16th of March.
The Funchal Sempre à Frente Municipal Group is pleased with the investment that the Funchal City Council will make, starting next year, through the payment of the social pass for students, residing in Funchal, between 12 and 23 years old, as well as through measures aimed at those over 65 years old.
This year, and especially in Funchal, the Christmas lights, which will be turned on on the 1st of December, will make use of technological advances.
How do I say this…Madeira-Weekly is a Tourist/Resident information blog; we love our island and want to portray our home in a positive way. But once in a while, we receive a report that tourists are not being treated fairly in the popular “Mercado dos Lavradores” when paying for the…
An individual is being sought by the police after leaving the scene of the accident.
The group Cidadania Ativa (consisting of two members, Tina and Ursula, at the moment) met with Dra. Livia, the City Hall manager of “Mobilidade and Transito” on Sept 4. Our first issue: We’d like the City to keep sportive events* out of Downtown Funchal (Av do Mar and Av Arriaga),…
Ursula and Martina (with the new initiative “Cidadania Ativa”) met with two Horarios do Funchal admin members, to talk about problems and new ideas, on July 4 The existing Information Painels The old Panels (financed with the help of the EU) cannot be maintained anymore, spare parts are not available.…
The Municipality of Funchal has confirmed that following the “municipal contract for Control and monitoring of leaks in the water networks associated with the existing remote management system in the Municipality of Funchal – 2nd Phase,” it will be necessary to interrupt road traffic on Rua João de Deus, between…
La Vie Shopping Centre, Funchal, which has been managed and marketed by Widerproperty since 2015, was acquired by real estate fund CA Património Crescente last week, with Square Asset Management SGOIC as manager of the Fund now owning La Vie da Madeira. In the last 8 years, Widerproperty through its…
Ursula and Martina (with the new initiative “Cidadania Ativa”) met with two Horarios do Funchal admin members, to talk about problems and new ideas, on July 4 Tourists We have many more tourists, we have too many beds now. Tourists are not getting or looking for information on how to…