Stay in Madeira - Day 8: Departure
Your guide will accompany you to the airport for your return
Your guide will accompany you to the airport for your return
Day dedicated to visiting the vibrant and cosmopolitan capital of Madeira, Funchal: The covered market sheltering fruits, flowers, vegetables, crafts and fish, the old city (15th century) and its painted doors, the cathedral...
Visit the south west coast of Madeira, the sunny coast where the villages abound or flourish on its methodically arranged slopes and cultivated, a multitude of exotic fruits and vegetables...
Madeira is also a central cordillera with sharp peaks, a maritime capital with an urban atmosphere, countless subtropical green hills, arid wilderness with vertiginous cliffs, a humid laurel forest in the tropics ...
Departure to the center of the island for a "nature discovery" day in the heart of the original forest Laurisilva, the laurel forest, which dates from the tertiary era, protected by UNESCO since 1999 ...
We offer you a cultural and gastronomic tour of Funchal on foot from 9 am to 1 pm. We will discuss 600 years of history including: the importance of the cultivation of sugar cane, the "white gold" of the 15th century which attracted a certain Christopher Columbus, today cultivated to produce internationally awarded rum, the trade in the famous and much appreciated Madeira wine, this complex nectar which ages as well as Port wine, the importance and ingenuity of these "Levadas" irrigation canals created to overcome the unequal distribution of resources in water and which are today traveled by hikers from all over the world.