Machico
Sheltered bay town where Portuguese explorers first landed, with a sandy beach and historic chapel.
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This guide to Machico on Madeira starts on a rain-soaked October morning in eighteen oh three, in the bay where the island's Portuguese story began. It reaches back to Zarco and Teixeira stepping ashore in fourteen nineteen, and to the legend of two English lovers said to lie beneath a small chapel by the shore. Best heard standing on the beach, facing the sea.
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