PORTO SANTO

The golden island

Details of Porto Santo:• Porto Santo is a Portuguese municipality that is part of the Autonomous Region of Madeira.• It has 42.48 km ² and there is 5,483 people living in this city.• It is one of the five municipalities of Portugal, which have a single parish, which has the same name.• The city closest to it is to Machico, on Madeira Island, located to the southwest.• The municipal holiday oh the island is on June 24.

History:• The island of Porto Santo was discovered in 1418 by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.• It is said that his name was given by the browsers that they found shelter from a storm that chased.• Perestrelo was named Grantee Island.• Being the first island colonized, it became the culture of cereals, took advantage of a dyematerial, the dragon's blood, a plant known for dragoeira, now defunct, promoted livestock raising and planting of the vineyard...

OLD PHOTOS OF PORTO SANTO

GEOGRAPHY• Your soil is quite sandy and very poor in nutrients.• Rainfall is very low compared with that of Madeira.• An island is extremely flat.• Has a beautiful sandy beach, 9 miles long.• Has lots of palm trees.• Is located in the Atlantic Ocean.• Is located 50 kilometers northeast of the island of Madeira.

Economy of Porto Santo• The main industry of the island of Porto Santo is tourism. Owing it to the beach and its temperate climate, many of the hotels and resorts were built in the twentieth century.• The island has a golf course that was designed by golf champion, Severiano Ballesteros.• Also includes eight tennis courts and an equestrian center (Ring Ana Ferreira).• The central island has an airport with regular flights to Funchal (15 minutes)

Curiosities of the porto santo• The sandy beach of Porto Santo have therapeutic efficacy.• The greatest horse of Portugal is the equestrian center port saint. Its name Obelix.• On August 28, 1960 was inaugurated the Porto Santo Airport, the first of the archipelago. The people housed there had to move to a neighborhood built especially for this purpose, the New Dragoal.• The original lighting was made by Vila Baleira oil lamps that the City had put in the mainstreets of the Vila Baleira in 1931. Only in 1954 is that the electricity has replaced the obsoletelamps "petromax." That same year he also began distribution network of drinking water at home.

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