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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 was also the host of the 2003 World Handball Championship. The Rally Vinho da Madeira is a rally race held annually since 1959, considered one of the biggest sporting events on the island [147] It was part of the European Rally Championship from 1979 to 2012 and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge from 2006 to 2010.
The Via Rápida 1 or VR1 (Fast Road 1 in English) is the first motorway in Madeira. Since April 2017, there is another motorway in the island called VR2. Construction started in 1989 [1] completed in 2005. [2] With 44 km it goes from Ribeira Brava to Porto do Caniçal, providing a fast connection between Funchal and the Madeira International ...
São João da Madeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w ʒuˈɐ̃w dɐ mɐˈðɐjɾɐ] ⓘ), is a city and a municipality in northwestern region of the Portuguese Norte region. It's part of the larger Porto Metropolitan Area , located 30 km from central Porto .
As of 2021, Madeira had a total population of 245,595. The island is the top of a massive submerged shield volcano that rises about 6 km (3.7 mi) from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The volcano formed atop an east–west rift [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in the oceanic crust along the African Plate , beginning during the Miocene epoch over 5 million years ago ...
The president of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira is the speaker of the regional parliament of this autonomous region of Portugal.. The position was created in 1976 after the newly enacted Constitution of Portugal, which followed the 1974 Revolution, granted legislative autonomy to the Azores and Madeira archipelagoes, thus establishing the Portuguese Autonomous Regions and the respective ...
Madeira Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto da Madeira) (IATA: FNC, ICAO: LPMA), informally Funchal Airport (Aeroporto do Funchal), formerly Santa Catarina Airport (Aeroporto de Santa Catarina) and officially Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport, is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of Madeira.
Casino da Madeira (Casino of Madeira) is a casino located in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, which is part of the hotel Pestana Casino Park. [1] It was designed in 1966, but work did not begin until six years later, and it opened in 1976.