Events

The Madeira Dig Festival is a noteworthy high quality cultural event held between the 8th to 13th December, 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.

This reggae music festival is held in Paúl do Mar, thus signaling the beginning of summer in this viilage.

With the objective of promoting the chapel of São Sebastião located in Vila da Ponta do Sol, an organization of the Associação Retoiça, the event “Música nas Capelas” takes place between the months of October and May.

The Regional Directorate for Culture is the responsible entity for an unprecedented project, based on the idea of accessibility to our heritage, making it available to the general public.

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

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.

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.