If you like flowers, then you're in the right place. The island boasts a wide variety of groomed gardens and parks with great attention, growing flowers, plants and trees such a great beauty, that Madeira was awarded eight years ago with "European Flowering
City 2000." Visit a few such gardens: Botanic Garden, the Garden Orchids, Public Gardens, St. Louise Park, St. Catarina, Sao Vicente garden of native plants, etc..
On the island you can find places of worship with a few hundred years old: Igreja de Sao Joao Evangelista (1624), Igreja de Sao Pedro (about 1600), Igreja Paroquial of Machico (about 1425-1499), da Boa lifelong Chapel (1655 ), etc.. Churches and chapels in
them evidence of the close island of Madeira past. Relics, paintings and architecture deserves to be seen.
You can not pass by without feeling the pulse of Madeira traditional markets and shopping centers on the island. Initially, regional markets had been built to sell flowers, but today both locals and tourists alike will find everything their heart craving, from
agricultural products to clothing, toys, music and much, much food. Try the markets of Porto Moniz, Santo da Serra and Ponta Delgada.
