New Tourist Attraction For Ponta do Pargo

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

If you have seen the Diário Notícias today, then you wouldn’t have missed the planned suspension walkway for Ponta do Pargo.

With a photo of the project taking up the entire width of the front, images are seen for the new suspension bridge at Ponta do Pargo . Albuquerque has already given the green light to the 420-metre infrastructure, which will cost 1.6 million euros and will be the new tourist attraction in the western zone, identical to the one in Arouca.

Below is a photo of the one in Arouca in Portugal.

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13 Responses

  1. And so the conversion of Madeira into an island version of Disneyland continues!
    And how many extra car parking facilities, that will also have to be created to serve this new “tourist” attraction, will be available? And how much extra will the construction of these obviously needed car parking facilities cost on top of the 1.6m euros?

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    1. You are soooo right with the conversion of Madeira into an island version of Disneyland. And that is another reason some tourists who love the Madeira of a few years ago before the building of the huge hotels etc will attempt to find another place. Us Canadians love Madeira but it is getting waaaay too big waaaay too fast and waaaaaay too expensive to enable us to travel there. Madeira is being ruined and whoever let those 23 new car rental companies into the country a couple of years ago this month should be let go. And they wonder why there is so much congestion on the roads. We have never rented a car and take the public transportation, tours and cabs to get around hence no parking problems for us. Seems not much common sense in keeping Madeira a wonderful place to visit or at least it used to be.

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  2. I agree with Michael, everything for the tourist nothing for the local population who are the ‘real’ Madeira. Money for a walkway but none to get the hospital finished

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    1. Purely demagogic speech. Have you looked at the hospital construction site recently? Do you think that shows up there with no investment? The hospital is around 500M€, how can you say nothing is being done for the locals?

      No one ever said there’s no money for the hospital. There IS money for the hospital but a downed government is legally impeded of lunching a 200M€ public tender.

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  4. Agree with Michael and PdsPete. Bang goes what was another peaceful and natural place. Let’s not forget the toilets, ticket booths, tacky souvenir shops and undoubtedly overpriced eateries.
    Madeira is being prostituted in the name of tourism and there’ll be no going back. It’s already drowning in this crap.

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  5. I’ve been a regular visitor to the island since 1971. In that time I’ve seen massive changes. Some good some bad. VR1 must be the biggest engineering project along with the runway extension that has enabled the development of the island that improves the lives of the indigenous population. The new and impressive hospital will also enhance the wellbeing of everyone.
    As for the volume of visitors, I think it’s coming to the point of killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Whilst visitors are needed to support the economy,the workers in the tourist industry are on ridiculous low wages and needs addressing. The cost of visiting the island are increasing exponentially without trickling down to the indigenous population. Property ownership is becoming impossible for local people!
    Building tourist attractions is going to ruin the character of Madeira. Does it need a pedestrian bridge as a draw for visitors,I don’t think so.
    Please don’t ruin a proud and friendly country at the expense of the local people.

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  6. I am a Tourist and have Pestana Timeshare. I DO AGREE THAT MADERIA is becoming Costa
    Atlantica. To much bulding with no thought for the local Maderians. We first came to Maderia in 1998 and it was so peaceful. Funchal have become RAT Race City It is now so expensive to eat in
    town we dont bother any more. and this latest silly idea is going to encourage very silly tourists
    to take risks and put more strain on the emergency services . We have Maderian Friends and feel very sorry that there island is being totally ruined. Far to many cars causing unnecessary congestion. The Island has excellent bus services and we use them all the time. PLEASE PLEASE can somebody in the
    government wake up before its to late and no body comes anymore

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    1. You are a tourist with a capital T, hahaha, and a Pestana Timeshare? Is that a magazine or what? 😀 If you came to Madeira first time in 1998 that means that you are an ignorant as no one else! You probably stayed at the swimming pool the whole day, during the night drinking Poncha. Otherwise, you would have known that in 90’s, Madeira was a paradise for pedophiles who were using and abusing the local kids on the scale that no one ever seen elsewhere. At the certain point the UN were deeply involved because the local police denied to everything, even having the evidence. Sometimes keep your stories to yourself if they bring nothing to the conversation. Bye!

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  8. Again. It’s locals and rich expats, thinking they can have their cake and eat it too…You want money but not tourism. You want a better life, but don’t want to share it. How selfish! The vast majority of visitors come to escape from their mundane hard working lives, for a few days a year, to appreciate what you take for granted. Give us a brake!

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  9. Well lets hope that people don’t drop their rubbish in the bottom or leave rubbish behind of this supposed new bridge .

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  10. In that one many people are right complete right I was born in Madeira and left in 1999 to live in the UK and return back to Portugal in 2018 mainland and over the years have been returning back to Madeira to visit my family and above all to hike . And with this new trail fees add to hikers becomes expensive if you go do more than 5 trails . I understand this to control the hikers numbers. In the case of the hikers that go there only to hike the authorities should be taught in a program of hikes that the hikers could choose to avoid this excessive pricing when doing a lot of trails . And above all maintain the hikers safe a secure in the trails something that isn’t happening when there is dogs ruining over the palace leading to accidents and many times with aggressive behaviour towards people this should not be allowed to happen over the years seen to many of this situations they should be banned in certain trails neither there is space in the trail for people or even adding a dog . My days going to Madeira also are going down, eventually one day I will not go anymore .

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