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The Hino da Região Autónoma da Madeira (English: Anthem of the Autonomous Region of Madeira) is the official anthem of Madeira, an autonomous North Atlantic archipelago of Portugal. It was adopted in 1980, through Regional Decree 12/80/M of September 16. [1] [2] The lyrics are by Ornelas Teixeira and the music by João Víctor Costa.
Maximiano de Sousa (20 January 1918, in Funchal, Madeira – 29 May 1980) was a Portuguese Fado singer. [1] Max was one of the most popular Fado singers from the 1940s until well after his death in 1980.
Bailinho da Madeira. The Music of Madeira reflects its cultural heritage, this can be seen in the local folklore music, which in Madeira is widespread and mainly uses local musical instruments such as the machete, rajão, brinquinho and cavaquinho, which are used in traditional folkloric dances like the bailinho da Madeira.
Multiprensa & Mas S.L. was founded in Madrid in 1999. The founder of 20 minutos is José Antonio Martínez Soler.. 20 minutos is published under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licence, which entitles anyone to freely copy, distribute, display, make derivative works and commercial use of the work.
The region, much like the rest of the Madeira is shaped by the Gulf Stream, and consequently has a narrow temperature variation. The climate can be divided into three main seasons: a warm and dry season spanning from June to August with average daily high temperatures ranging from 23 to 26 °C (73 to 79 °F), a warm and wet season from mid ...
Madeira Day, officially known as Autonomous of Region of Madeira and Madeiran Communities' Day (Portuguese: Dia da Região Autónoma da Madeira e das Comunidades Madeirenses), celebrated in Madeira on 1 July, is a holiday marking the date when Portuguese explorers arrived in Machico's bay in 1419. It is a public holiday in the Autonomous Region.
The Laurisilva of Madeira (Portuguese: Floresta Laurissilva da Madeira) is a natural place declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. [1] It is considered a very valuable relic, due to its size and quality, of the laurisilva, a type of laurel forest that was very abundant in the past and is practically extinct today. It is believed to be ...
Praia da Vitória; Santa Cruz da Graciosa; Velas; Horta District [7] Corvo; Horta; Lajes das Flores; Lajes do Pico; Madalena; Santa Cruz das Flores; São Roque do Pico; Ponta Delgada District [7] Lagoa; Nordeste; Ponta Delgada; Povoação; Ribeira Grande; Vila do Porto; Vila Franca do Campo; Madeira, Autonomous Region of [1 subregion] Madeira ...