Ribeira Brava Beach

Rather ugly, not really a nice beach

Thursday 7th September and and we visited the coastal town of Ribeira Brava on the Southern coast of the Island We walked along the seafront promenade which abutted this beach. We walked as far as t...

Dark concrete beach with dinky joints

Can't understand why our guided tour took us here?! Really not nice! Dark beach, stones, concrete.... Shabby beachwalk and terrible dirty and disgusting so called snackbars! OMG Avoid this...

Nice little beach

A small beach mostly stony with some sandy areas. There is a freshwater inlet running out into the sea at this point. When we visited there was a lovely swan and some ducks swimming in this part of th...

Touristy town on the sea, with swimmable beach

Small touristy town on the beach, the beach itself is quite small but perfect for swimming and altough still aimed for the masses, it is just 15 minutes from Funchal which can also be reached by just ...

Would not want to spend a long time here

Wednesday 23rd June we visited Ribeira Brava, meaning Wild Stream, on the southern coast of the Island. As with most of the beaches on Maderia, this one is also a pebbled with no sand. It is a lon...