This city, located in the coast this of the island of Madeira, to near 22,1Km of Funchal, has a fishing port and also constitutes an attractive tourist place.
Machico was the first place where they disembarked in 1419 Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, official discoverers of the island of the Madeira. Perosegún local histories, near a century before already had found there shelter Robert Machim and his loved Ana d'Arfet. Certain or no, the fact is that the name of this council seems to be from an alteration of the Machim name.
In a bay in the mouth of a fertile valley, the city this divided by a river that flows until the wide beach of songs in which it says that to Zarco and Teixeira in 1419 disembarked. The church of Nossa Mrs. gives Conceiçao dates from the s. XV and she is next to the central seat. Also the this near Chapel of Our two Lady Milagres, place, according to is said, of the tomb of Ana d'Arset, famous for being the lover of Robert Machim, the legendary discoverer of Madeira. So easy era to throw the anchor in the port of Machico that the attacks of the pirates became very frequent, until in 1706 the inhabitants of the island had to construct to the Fort of Nossa Mrs. do Shelter, of triangular form, as well as the one of Sao Joao Baptista in 1708. Machico is today the second more important city of Madeira, being the fishing and agriculture the main industries.