600 years since the discovery of the Madeira Archipelago.

 "Passamos a grande Ilha da Madeira,
Que do muito arvoredo assim se chama;
Das que nós povoamos a primeira,
Mais célebre por nome do que por fama.
Mas nem por ser do mundo a derradeira,
Se lhe avantajam quantas vénus ama;
Antes, sendo esta sua, se esquecera,
De Cypro, Guido, Paphos e Cythera."

IN "Os Lusiadas", Luis de Camões

1418, is the year designated as the year of discovery of the Island of Porto Santo, a circumstance that occurred after a storm on the high seas that diverted a vessel that followed the African coast from the route. Gonçalves Zarco and his crew were saved by this small piece of land that they named Porto Santo.
A year later, in 1419, another piece of land was spotted, which was designated by Madeira, due to the abundance of this material.
Gonçalves Zarco, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo are the three navigators who arrived here and stayed here, each with his captaincy. Porto Santo to Bartolomeu Perestrelo, Machico to Tristão Vaz Teixeira, and Funchal to Gonçalves Zarco, this, some years later, in 1440, after starting the Cycle of Settlement in 1425, by order of King D. João I.