Excursions
Porto Santo
Madeira’s sister island, Porto Santo, lies 24 miles (39km)
northeast of its larger sibling and was actually discovered before
Madeira itself. In 1418 Portuguese mariners Joao Goncalves Zarco
and Tristao Vaz Teixeira stumbled across it while running from a
storm. Unlike Madeira, Porto Santo...
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