"A man's culture is essentially the sum of his memories,"
wrote José Manuel Melim Mendes in his bilingual book Memories of Porto
Santo and Madeira. If so, the collective mental culture of Madeira
island is surely one of kaleidoscopic richness: aquamarine waves, violet
hydrangea, emerald forests and purple cumulonimbus. Here be sounds of
cracking shorelines, whale songs and wind whistled peaks.
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