Europe Madeira Islands

Hymne national :   

Population :  245 012 habitants (est. 2001)
Pays voisins :
Densité : 313.31 hab./km²
Superficie : 782 km²
Capitale : Funchal
Principales villes : Machico
Point culminant : Pico da Vara 1 861 m.
Langue(s) parlée(s) : Portugais
Langue(s) officielle(s) : Portugais
Monnaie : Euro
Fête nationale : 10 juin
Statut : Région autonome du Portugal

1AVOGI (e as Pulgas) http://avogi.blogspot.com/

2O MEU RURAL http://omeurural.blogspot.com/

3GYMADEIRA.a Ginástica na R.A.M. http://gymadeira.blogspot.com/

4Devaneios Existenciais http://alexandracarvalho19.blogspot.com/
5Flor De Lótus http://sonhovsrealidade.blogspot.com/
6Casa na Árvore Portugal - Tree House Portugal -  http://casanaarvoreportugal.blogspot.com/
7Espaço Decorativo http://espacodecorativo.blogspot.com/

Madeira ( or ; or ) is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union. The archipelago comprises the major part of one of the two Autonomous regions of Portugal (the other being the Azores located to the northwest), that includes the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas, administered together with the separate archipelago of the Savage Islands.

 Madeira was discovered by Portuguese sailors in the service of Infante D. Henrique (Henry the Navigator) in 1419, and settled after 1420. The archipelago is considered to be the first territorial discovery of the exploratory period of the Portuguese Age of Discovery.

 Today, it is a popular year-round resort, being visited every year by about one million tourists, noted for its Madeira wine, flowers, landscapes and embroidery artisans, as well as for its annual New Year celebrations that feature the largest fireworks show in the world, as officially recognized by the Guinness World Records, in 2006. The main harbour in Funchal is the leading Portuguese port in cruise liner dockings, being an important stopover for commercial and trans-Atlantic passenger cruises between Europe, the Caribbean and North America.

 Madeira is currently the second richest region in Portugal, after Lisbon, with a GDP per capita of 103% of the European average.