Machico Culture and Sights

Joao Zarco, it is said, declined by 1425 the contract for the construction of the "Chapel of Miracles" - as the first church ever Madeira. Today's Capela dos Milagres, however, comes from the 1810th T...

On the eastern bank of the Ribeira da Machico begins the historic fishermen's quarter. To the high Indian laurel trees shaded main square, Largo dos Milagres inconspicuous with the same church were ca...

The church was already in the 15th Century was built. The portal page with three columns of marble donated by King Manuel I. The main entrance still bears ornaments from Manueline Time: grimace-like f...