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Website. www .madeirabeachfl .gov. Madeira Beach ( / məˈdɛərə / mə-DAIR-ə) is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States, bordered on the west by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the east by St. Petersburg. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,895. The entertainment district of John's Pass is located on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Website. www .cm-funchal .pt. Funchal ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fũˈʃal] ⓘ) is the capital, largest city and the municipal seat of Portugal 's Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, [1] making it the sixth largest city in Portugal.
Santa Maria Maior (Funchal) / 32.66056°N 16.89139°W / 32.66056; -16.89139. Santa Maria Maior ( Portuguese meaning Saint Mary the Great) is a civil parish in the eastern part of the municipality of Funchal on the island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 13,352, [1] in an area of 4.86 km 2.
Belmond Reid's Palace (a.k.a. Reid's Palace) is a historic hotel located to the west of Funchal Bay in Madeira, Portugal, in an imposing position looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. [1] [2] The hotel has sloping gardens. [3] The hotel's complex include more than 40,000 square meters of space designed as a subtropical botanical garden .
Its first higher education institution, a medical school, was founded in Funchal in the 18th century. In 1978, the University of Lisbon established a satellite campus in Madeira, and from 1983 to 1986, today's campus began taking shape, offering courses in the areas of science and technology, arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Madeira's tax regime has been approved by the European Commission as legal State Aid and its deadline has recently been extended by the E.C. until the end of 2027. The International Business Center of Madeira, also known as Madeira Free Trade Zone, was created formally in the 1980s as a tool of regional economic policy.
Coordinates: 32.636649°N 16.935696°W. The Marine Biology Station of Funchal ( Portuguese: Estação de Biologia Marinha do Funchal ), on the Portuguese island of Madeira, is a research centre owned by the municipality of Funchal and dedicated to research and education on marine sciences. It was inaugurated on 28 September 1999.
Praia da Calheta (English: Calheta Beach) is a beach located near the town Calheta, on the island of Madeira, Portugal . It is one of the few sandy beaches of Madeira, with sand imported from North Africa. However, these sand-imports were quite controversial, as the sand was taken from Western Sahara, [1] a Non-Self Governing Territory which ...