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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.
Viola de arame: the viola de arame is similar to the viola braguesa and may have a sound hole in the shape of two hearts, a half moon, or an oval. It is common on Madeira and the Azores, and has nine strings arranged in five courses: 2-2-2-1-2. Viola braguesa: the viola braguesa is an instrument resembling the guitar strung with five steel ...
"Have Some Madeira M'Dear", also titled "Madeira, M'Dear?", [n 1] is a darkly comic song by Flanders and Swann. [2]Madeira wine. The lyrics tell of an elderly rake who "slyly inveigles" an attractive girl of 17 to his flat to view his collection of stamps, where he offers her a glass of Madeira, a fortified Portuguese wine.
Pliny mentions certain Purple Islands, the position of which with reference to the Fortunate Islands or Canaries might seem to indicate Madeira islands. Plutarch (Sertorius, 75 AD) referring to the military commander Quintus Sertorius (d. 72 BC), relates that after his return to Cádiz, "he met seamen recently arrived from Atlantic islands, two in number, divided from one another only by a ...
The Flag of the Madeira is the regional flag of the Portuguese Autonomous Region of the Madeira. consists of a blue-gold-blue vertical triband with a Cross of Christ in the center. The regulations and clarification of the dimensions, colours and symbolism of the flag of the Autonomous Region were approved by decree of the Legislative Assembly ...
The election replaced all 47 members of the Madeira Assembly, and the new members will then elect the President of the Autonomous Region. The incumbent president, Miguel Albuquerque from the Social Democratic Party (PSD), led a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the CDS – People's Party , and defended the dominance of the ...
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.
The Paraguayan harp is the national instrument of Paraguay, the result of the confluence of European and Guarani musical cultures.Derived from the classical angular harp, introduced during the Spanish colonization in the Jesuit Guarani Missions.