Machico

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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Machico is a city in the east of the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira. It is the oldest town on the island.

History

In July 1419, the Portuguese discoverer João Gonçalves Zarco and Vaz Tristão Perestrelo entered in the bay of Machico first time the bottom of the island of Madeira.

The King D. João I distributed as part of the colonization of the island (1420-1425) the country to its deserved three captains. Tristão Vaz was appointed captain of the eastern part of the island, based in Machico, Perestrelo received the captain District Porto Santo, and João Gonçalves Zarco was awarded the Southwest half of Madeira, which he managed from Funchal. The captains had far-reaching powers: they could levy taxes on the land, sugar mills, ovens and salt and they were handed over to fallow soils in its sole discretion to landowners for use. Machico soon developed into a center of sugar cane cultivation, but could not keep pace, where the most suitable for the sugar cane soils were with the city of Funchal.

1494 came only a fifth of the harvest from the Legatsgebiet Machico. When the Portuguese crown in 1497 Madeira directly subordinate to the king, Funchal had long since overtaken the rival economically.

Machico received on 2 August 1996, the city rights and thus became the second city of the island.

Attractions

Machico is the oldest church in Madeira, the Capela dos Milagres. Of historical interest are the parish church (15th century) in the village and the chapel of São Roque in the vicinity of the hotel with its famous tile images and the Solar do Ribeirinho, a recently restored manor house in the Rua do Ribeirinho. In this house is now home to a museum dedicated to the history of Machico.

Tourism

Machico has a hotel, several inns and numerous restaurants. Among the traditional dishes that are offered in good restaurants include for example the Sopa de Trigo, a wheat soup, carne de vinho e Alhos, marinated in wine and garlic meat pieces and the Bolo de Caco, one on a hot stone ( caco ) baked flatbread, which is often still warm served with a spread of garlic butter as a starter. The traditional dishes are very tasty Machico.

Since 2009 there is a man-made sandy beach, a rarity on the island (otherwise only in Calheta ). The sand was imported from Morocco. At low tide, black sand comes on next to the pebble beach in addition to light.

In the near Machico located on the slope of the steep coast of Madeira airport built with the spectacular, on concrete piles runway. The space between the concrete piles under the runway was on the scoring to Machico area in the meantime in a sports and leisure center ( " Parque Desportivo Água de Pena " ) converted for tennis, squash, badminton, handball, jogging etc..

East of Machico is the viewpoint Pico do Facho (322 m above sea level. M. ). From here the view extends over the runway of the airport of Santa Catarina to the west, and the Bay of Machico over the place Caniçal of time up to the eastern tip of Madeira, the headland of Ponta de São Lourenço.

Look at the traffic junction Machico

View of the beach promenade with the forum

Overlooking the beach and the harbor, in the background the Ponta de São Lourenço

Circle Machico

The following five municipalities belong to the circle Machico: