‘A man’s culture is essentially the sum of his memories,’ wrote José Manuel Melim Mendes in his bilingual book Memories of Porto Santo and Madeira. If so, the collective mental culture of Madeira ...

According to legend, when 15th-century Portuguese explorers happened upon a rugged and foreboding string of islands—less than a week’s sail from the Iberian Peninsula—sailors sequestered themselves on ...

Hugo Vasconcellos, my guide with Adventureland Madeira, throws his Land Rover into second gear and lets out a whoop of joy as we begin to cruise down a steeply pitched road hugging the edge of a ...