Events

The Madeira Dig Festival, a noteworthy high quality cultural event that highlights Madeira as an attractive tourist destination for a young and active segment.

This is one of the oldest and most popular traditions in Madeira celebrated a little all over the island, a ritual that brings together families, friends and neighbours who come out to the streets to "sing the epiphany” or “Janeiras” from door to door.

Aleste Festival is one of the latest cultural events dedicated specially to music, a musical festival commitment to improve the diversity and the quality music concerts in Madeira Island.

Promoted by the Regional Culture Bureau (DRC) this event is considered to be one of the oldest traditional music festivals of the World Music genre both in Europe and Portugal.

Funchal Jazz Festival, organised by Funchal City Hall, is held in the open air at Santa Catarina Park.

The municipality of Santana hosts this iconic ethnographic festival, which is a hallmark at both a regional and national level, for fostering and promoting the cultural heritage and the culinary traditions of this emblematic municipality of the northern Madeira island.

Santa Catarina Park hosts the seventh edition of the NOS Madeira Summer Opening.

Organized by the Folklore and Ethnographic group of Boa Nova, this cultural initiative aims to disseminate the rich cultural heritage of Madeira by presenting its ethnography and folklore in an intercultural gathering with plenty of entertainment.

The village of Ponta do Sol annually welcomes this festival, an initiative promoted by the Ponta do Sol Folklore Group, in collaboration with the local Municipal Council.