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The Madeira Botanical Garden received in 2022, about 350 thousand visits, and in the first quarter of this year, it already has a record of 92 thousand entries, in a renovated space with new accessibilities.
The last few months have been of intense renovation work of the Madeira Botanical Gardens, an intervention that is already concluded, and that cost 871 thousand euros, having been co-financed in 85% by the European Union, through the FEDER programme.
The President of the Instituto de Florestas e da Conservação da Natureza (IFCN), the entity that manages the Botanical Gardens, told RTP-Madeira that the space "now has an automatic irrigation system in all flowerbeds, which optimizes water resources". On the other hand, "we have the issue of the entrances, we tried to modernize all the Garden's entrance, the ticketing, allowing the visitor to have more information available" as well as, and "maybe the most important of all the interventions, is the issue of accessibility, with the purpose of modernizing the Garden, by building here a series of ramps that allow the mobility of people with reduced mobility", said Manuel Filipe.
In addition to a superb view over the capital of the Pearl of the Atlantic, the Botanical Garden has five hectares of gardens, with more than two thousand exotic plants.
The renovation of the space - which respected the nature of the building, with the use of materials such as wood and stone from the island - came at a good time, precisely because the demand for the space has grown immensely, since "it is one of the most visited places in Funchal, we have been registering a satisfactory increase, in this first quarter alone, more than 92 thousand people entered the Botanical Garden here, which in fact is a record and beats all the data that existed even in the pre-pandemic period", adds the IFCN manager.
The entrance ticket that used to cost 6 euros, had been updated at the beginning of the year, and currently costs 7.50 euros to visit one of Madeira's main tourist attractions.
