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Madeira Island – Many say that Jules Verne when he wrote "The Mysterious Island", said as the island of Madeira.
Who knows, maybe the way it is …
Before you are very beautiful and mysterious images of the sky taken on the island.

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies than 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union. The archipelago comprises one of the two Autonomous regions of Portugal (the other being the Azores located to the northwest), that includes the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, the Desertas and the Savage Islands. Madeira was re-discovered by Portuguese sailors in the service of Infante D. Henrique in 1419, and settled after 1420. The archipelago is considered to be the first territorial discovery of the exploratory period of the Portuguese Age of Discovery.