ouring the island is highly recommended. Only 32 miles long and 12 miles wide this incredibly surprising sub-tropical island rises to almost 6000 feet at its highest point. Madeira has an enormous variety of exotic sub-tropical vegetation with a mass of flowers in every garden, spectacular mountains and deep valley scenery, pine forests, waterfalls and craggy cliffs and a network of vines, like spiders’ webs covering the hillsides and providing grapes for the famous Madeira Wine.