Cristiano Ronaldo may have raised his homeland’s profile a bit in recent years, at least among Manchester United fans, but this hilly, subtropical island remains the same pleasant, relaxed place as ever – as befits an old hand at the tourist game. Eminent Victorians came for a spot of relaxation, Winston Churchill regularly set up his easel near the pretty fishing village of Câmara de Lobos, and to this day middle-class Brits and Germans swarm genteelly to Madeira in winter.
[Madeira guide]