If you are planning to travel to Funchal or any other city in Portugal, this airport locator will be a very useful tool. This page gives complete information about the Madeira Airport along with the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. Once the last stop for explorers like Christopher Columbus and ...

On a spectacular rocky outcrop in the mid-Atlantic, nature, history and culture converge to form a fascinating destination. This month, Madeira joins the "no-frills" map, with easyJet flights from ...

With lots of activities to suit all ages, a subtropical climate and plenty of sunshine, Madeira, Portugal is an ideal holiday destination any time of the year. ByJoanne Shurvell, Contributor. Forbes ...

Madeira has begun three days of national mourning after a coach full of tourists careered off a steep road yesterday resulting in numerous casualties. Authorities have confirmed all 29 of the dead are ...

Thousands of emergency personnel fought flames on Madeira and the Portuguese mainland Three people have died as wildfires raged in the city of Funchal, on the Portuguese island of Madeira. All three ...

Flying into Funchal Airport in Madeira, the beauty and versatility of this island become immediately obvious. The plane hovers over its mossy mountains dotted with picturesque terracotta-roofed houses ...

In 1419, when Portuguese seafarers happened on an uninhabited island in the North Atlantic, around 500 miles off the African coast, they were awed by the dense covering of greenery. Even today, after ...

For centuries, sailors and wine merchants knew Madeira as a remote stop between Europe and the New World. Its steep green cliffs, laurel forests and terraced farms shaped the lives of those who lived ...

My alarm went off far too early, but I rose from bed and then ascended — in the dark, in a van on winding roads — Pico do Arieiro, one of Madeira’s highest peaks. I sat perched above a thick mass of ...