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Madeira Christmas 2024
Madeira Christmas includes a distinctive attraction, virtually unique in the world. It is celebrated with joy, colour and a great deal of enthusiasm. Christmas is really the most important period of the year, a time to observe traditions and customs in a tribute into folklore and legacy of the inhabitants. Everything revolves around the”Festa” (the Festivity), along with arrival of the month of December is most eagerly anticipated by all. The Christian traditions, throughout Christmas and New Year season are actually associated with the habits of the natives. Throughout the…
Read MoreChristmas and new years festivities – Programme
The arrival of the decorative lights in the streets of the city centre of Funchal, during the month of December, marks the beginning of the Christmas and New Year festivities. These commemorations consist of a rich and extensive programme of cultural, religious, ethnographic and artistic manifestations that takes place throughout the entire month of December and ends with the celebration of Twelfth Night. At this time of the year, Funchal transforms itself into a crib of real life proportions, the streets become decorated with multi-coloured flowers and lights of all…
Read MoreNew Year in Madeira and Christmas – Program
The month of December is the high point of all regional events , based on the beauty and richness of Events of the End – of – Year . It is the month of the Feast , as in Madeira is known throughout the duration of the celebrations of Christmas and New Year’s Eve , a time for the islanders lived intensely until the 6th January . Christmas parties and New Year in Madeira include a rich program of events in religious, ethnographic and artistic filling low Funchal much joy,…
Read MoreHolidays in Madeira at Christmas time
Christmas and New Year celebrations in Madeira offer a varied programme of cultural, folk and artistic events. The festive season starts in December when Funchal’s streets are magnificently decorated and the colourful lights are switched on in the city’s main streets until early January. Madeira is the Christmas Party Madeira traditions are to meet , get in the pine decoration at home, in the manufacture of typical delicacies of the festive season , to the religious rituals . Pagan customs of the religious , the Madeira has something to say…
Read MoreMadeira Christmas and New Year at Funchal – December 8th to January 6th
Christmas parties and New Year’s Eve in Madeira include a program rich in manifestations of a religious , ethnographic and artistic fills the low Funchal much joy, music , color and light , whose apotheosis culminates with the grand fireworks display Pass year in the amphitheater of the bay of Funchal , awarded in 2006 by the Guinness book of records as the biggest spectacle of fire firework in the world . Madeira Christmas pics Some of the highlights of this program are: December 8 to January 6, 2014 –…
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