Machico ★ 4.0
Machico is where Zarco landed in July 1419, making it Madeira's historical birthplace, a bay town of 20,000 people east of Funchal on the VR1.
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Câmara de Lobos ★ 4.6
Câmara de Lobos, settled after 1420, still works Madeira's scabbard-fish fleet from a bay of painted boats nine kilometres west of Funchal city.
Santana ★ 4.3
Santana on Madeira's north coast keeps the thatched triangular casinhas and sits inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of upland fruit and chestnut.