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A levada is an irrigation channel or aqueduct specific to the Portuguese Atlantic region of Madeira.Madeira island is wet in the northwest, but dry in the southeast. In the 16th century the Portuguese started building levadas to carry water to the agricultural regions in the south.
Traditional pastries in Madeira usually contain local ingredients, one of the most common being mel de cana, literally "sugarcane honey" . The traditional cake of Madeira is called Bolo de Mel, which translates as (Sugarcane) "Honey Cake" and according to custom, is never cut with a knife, but broken into pieces by hand. It is a rich and heavy ...
Funchal Baptist Church was established in Madeira in 1976. It is located at Rua Silvestre Quintino de Freitas, and provides English services in the morning and Portuguese in the evening. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established on Madeira in 1983.
Madeira: 3,168 m (10,394 ft) Road 2004 Longest road tunnel in Madeira. Ponta do Sol Tunnel: Túnel da Ponta do Sol Madeira: 2,682 m (8,799 ft) Road 2004 Encumeada Tunnel: Túnel da Encumeada Madeira: 3,100 m (10,171 ft) Road 2004 Rossio Tunnel: Túnel do Rossio Lisbon: 2,613 m (8,573 ft) [1] Railway 1890 Longest railway tunnel in Portugal.
Curral das Freiras ("Pen of the Nuns") is a civil parish in the municipality of Câmara de Lobos in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 2,001, [1] in an area of 25.03 km 2. [2] It is situated in the mountainous interior of the island.
The Desertas Islands (Portuguese: Ilhas Desertas, IPA: [ˈiʎɐʒ ðɨˈzɛɾtɐʃ], "Deserted Islands") are a small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the larger Portuguese Madeira Archipelago. The archipelago is located off the coast of Morocco.
The following is a list of the largest cities/towns of Madeira. Funchal is the only city with a population over 100,000. Madeira Island. Calheta; Câmara de Lobos ...
Over half of Madeira's plant species are also found in the Mediterranean Basin. [3] Before Madeira was settled, laurel forests, known as laurissilva covered most of the island. Laurissilva now covers 16 % of the island, and is found between 300 and 1,300 metres (980 and 4,270 ft) elevation on the Madeira's wet north-facing slopes, and from 700 ...