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Though never axe until a later Aware of the importance that the environment and its preservation
day play in the future of the island, the Regional Government organizes
Assailed thy forests huge
several activities in order to motivate the population to maintain their
antiquity,
private gardens. One of these actions is the competition ‘Funchal –
Yet elder Fame had many tales
Flowering City’, carried out by Funchal’s Town Hall. This competition
of thee-
gets local people to participate, both in the private and commercial
Whether Phoenician shipman
sector, to help make Funchal a more colourful city.
far astray
Had brought uncertain notices
away
Of islands dreaming in the
middle sea;
Or that man’s heart, which
struggles to be free
From the old worn-out world,
had never stay
Till, for a place to rest on, it had
found
A region out of ken, that
happier isle,
Which the mild ocean breezes
Monte Sled
blow around,
Always aiming to improve the public spaces, the government is now
Where they who thrice upon
building some new gardens, such as the one that was recently
this mortal stage
opened in the Old Part of the Town – and the Panoramic Garden that
had kept their hands from
will link the ‘Estrada Monumental’ (main road to Câmara de Lobos)
wrong, their hearts from guile,
with the promenade in the Lido area.
Should come at length, and live
a tearless age.
These green spaces are living proof of this city’s devotion to the
-Richard Trench 1835
environment, as are the street-sweepers who are dedicated not only
to keeping the city clean but also to the production of their own
working tools: the heather brooms!
Porto Moniz
Carnival - Mardi Gras
‘With Pestana, your well-being is our priority’
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