Machico, Madeira institutions (municipal chamber, customshouse and church), and the left margin, that included nucleus of Banda d'Além, the Misericórdia (social centre) and Chapel of Christ, now known as the Chapel of "Nosso Senhor dos Milagres" ("Our Lord of Miracles"). In 1803, a landslide was responsible for the destruction of various homes, destroying hedges and walls, the main bridge along the ravine and the Chapel of "Nosso Senhor dos Milagres". Machico also became a front-line during the "Revolta da Madeira" ("Madeira Revolt") in April 1931. Machico is located 17 km northeast of Funchal, northwest of the uninhabitable Savage Islands, 20 km southeast
Carnival of Madeira the Brazilian Carnival could be historically traced to the period of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries when their caravels passed regularly through Madeira, a territory which already celebrated emphatically its carnival season, and where they were loaded with goods but also people and their ludic and cultural expressions who then lend them to what would become the biggest cultural manifestation in modern Brazil. Carnival of Madeira The Carnival of Madeira (Carnaval in Portuguese) is an annual festival held forty days before Easter, that ends on Shrove Tuesday (called Fat Tuesday in Madeira - Terça-feira Gorda in Portuguese) the day before