Baía de Machico

The bay where the first navigators landed in 1419. It stretches several hundred metres and brings together a pebble beach, a beach of imported yellow sand, a quay and a marina. The green mountains that close it form a kind of amphitheatre running down to the sea. Sailing, canoeing and windsurfing are practised here; the Desertas and Ponta de São Lourenço close the backdrop.