Madeira Airport of the runway and taxiways, increasing the area usable by in excess of 1,500 m². Madeira Airport Madeira International Airport Cristiano Ronaldo CR7, commonly known as Madeira Airport (), or Funchal Airport () , is an international airport in the civil parish of Santa Cruz in the Portuguese archipelago and autonomous region of Madeira. The airport is located east-northeast of the regional capital Funchal after which it is sometimes informally named. It mostly hosts flights to European metropolitan destinations due to the importance of Madeira as a leisure destination, and is pivotal in the movement of cargo in and out
Madeira gathered outside the Church of Our Lady of Monte in Monte, to celebrate the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption, which takes place on Tuesday and is a public holiday. The Lady of the Mount festival is the island's biggest. In 2019 Madeira island will celebrate six centuries since its formal discovery by the Portuguese. The archipelago of Madeira is located from the African coast and from the European continent (approximately a one-and-a-half hour flight from the Portuguese capital of Lisbon). Madeira is on the same parallel as Bermuda a few time zones farther west in the Atlantic. The two