The Flower Festival is a tribute to Spring, and the celebration of metamorphosis and rebirth, fertility and the abundance of flowers that paint, scent and inebriate the environment and represent the island of eternal spring.
The Festival is annual, among the attractions are the Children's Parade and the Great Flower Parade, in which hundreds of people and floats decorated with the theme cross the city center to the sound of varied musical performances, showing the exuberant and diverse flora of Madeira.

It is with the inauguration of decorative illuminations in the streets of Funchal, during the month of December, that the program for the Christmas and New Year celebrations in Madeira begins.
These parties culminate in the famous firework, officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records in 2006, as the biggest show in the world.
These celebrations are part of a rich and extensive program of cultural, religious, ethnographic and artistic events covering the entire month of December and ending on the 6th of January.

One of Madeira's most famous traditions is the “Arraiais”.
These events include a religious aspect, celebrated in religious parishes through masses and processions. But the real “party” takes place in the proximity of the churches, with a lot of music, folklore and typical gastronomy.
This tradition is always a moment of conviviality between friends and families.
The churches are decorated with a set of lights that run around the streets, accompanied by colorful flower cords, flags and wooden stalls. Regional drinks such as “Poncha” and traditional products such as pasta dolls, colorful candy necklaces, lupines and bread (bolo do caco) with garlic butter are sold. You can find “the typical drink of the festivals”, an unusual combination of wine and carbonated orange soda, the “Wine with Laranjada”. It's also typical to cook your own “skewer”; the meat is sold in stalls, cut into cubes and roasted on laurel skewers, on stoves made available to the public.

The Nossa Senhora da Piedade festivity is dedicated to Fishermans. Caniçal is one of the oldest parishes on Madeira Island and it is here that this festival is celebrated in honor of the patron saint of fishermen - Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Our Lady of Piety). Fishermen participate in an aquatic procession to the small chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at the top of Monte Gordo near Ponta de São Lourenço with their boats decorated and painted in bright colors. The procession takes place on Saturday and the boats leave from Caniçal towards the port of Quinta do Lorde. The boat is chosen by raffle two weeks before the party to carry the Santa; when the boats stop at Quinta do Lorde, participants continue the procession on foot to the chapel; the statue of Nossa Senhora da Piedade is then taken to the boat and then to the village of Caniçal for the celebration. The next day, Sunday, a new boat procession is made to return the Saint to her chapel. The procession is accompanied by traditional hymns of the devotees and the music of the land band. As in all other parties on Madeira Island there is a lot of celebration with entertainment, skewered on laurel stick and bolo do caco.

There are more and more shopping centers and supermarkets across the island with the ultimate goal of satisfying consumers. However, there is nothing that beats the atmosphere experienced in a typical market!
In the beginning, these markets were designed for the sale of flowers, but, over time, their offer included the sale of all types of agricultural products and even some specialties of regional cuisine (such as bolo do caco, grilled chicken or wheat soup).
In today's markets you will find a little bit of everything, from flowers, vegetables, fruit and eggs to clothing, CDs and music cassettes, food and drinks. At the heart of the Mercado dos Lavradores in Funchal, these open markets are generally frequented by the population living in the area where they are located and who go for their weekly purchases.
You will find these markets, which operate during the weekends, all over the island, but the most 'highly regarded' are located in Santa (Porto Moniz), Santa Cruz, Ponta Delgada and in Santo da Serra.

With the Antlantic Festival we entered the summer in a great mood, wrapped by the fire dance that artistically strokes and fills the sky of Funchal with color, adding various festivities, from which the pyro-musical shows, the Atlantic Roots Festival and the Regional Art Week.
Throughout the month of June, fabulous pyrotechnic shows are held every Saturday, with an approximate duration of 20 minutes, together with a musical number, which dazzle the spectators by the sea and with eyes fixed on the sky, the order is to relax and have the most fun! Live an enchanting experience that allows you to be in contact with the 4 elements - water, earth, fire and air.