Machico is a city and municipality in the northeastern part of the island of Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost municipality on the island, it is also the third most populous area; its population was 21,747 (in 2001). The town, proper, had a population of just over 10,000 inhabitants. In calm waters of early after, on 1 July 1419, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira disembarked on the beach of Machico, beginning the era of Portuguese discoveries. On the beach a mass of thanksgiving was celebrated by Franciscan priests, in honour of the visitation of Saint Elizabeth (2 June), an image of which accompanied the expedition.
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