Awareness Raising - Skin Cancer

With the arrival of summer, questions about the sun and skin become more relevant, and it is therefore very important to be aware of the need for a conscious and controlled sun exposure. It is also important to know the warning signs and how to do a correct sun protection.

It's never too much to talk about health, guarantee your place in this free awareness action about Skin Cancer, which will be presented by the Regional Center of Madeira of the Portuguese League Against Cancer, in the multipurpose room of the Cultural and Congress Center of Porto Santo.

Maritime Activities

In the moments reserved for the practice of sea activities, the participant can choose one or more sports to try, just make sure you register on the date you prefer. At the activity's location, depending on the weather conditions, the On Water Academy team will present the best sport adapted to each person.

For the practice of these activities, it is recommended that participants know how to swim.

Learn more about the available sports:

Canoeing, Sit-on-top - An open kayak model where the participant goes seated. It is easy to handle for all people, including those new to canoeing. Sit-on-tops are versatile for surfing and touring.

Snorkeling - This is a type of diving in which the person stays at the surface of the water, an experience that provides an incredible exploration of the local fauna and flora. To practice this sport, the participant usually uses three essential pieces of equipment: the mask, fins, and snorkel. Other equipment that can be used is the life jacket, for participants who do not know how to swim or are learning.

Sup Surfing - One of the modalities of Stand-Up Paddle, which allows you to kneel or stand on a board and propel yourself in the water with the use of a paddle or your hands. A sport practiced all over the world by adults, children, men, and women of all ages. A very fun and profitable activity, for the mind and for the body since it works several muscles of the body at the same time.

Surfing - An individual and radical sport that challenges the participant to stand up on the board for as long as possible, gliding through the waves and performing maneuvers with various levels of difficulty.

Bodyboard - It is practiced with a board the size of a "half-body". A sport that emerged from surfing and uses the force of the sea waves that bring practitioners to the shore to perform various acrobatics, here also with various levels of difficulty.

Book your place, we promise you'll come out of the water invigorated.

Aerial Yoga for Adults

A combination of yoga, dance, pilates and aerial acrobatics that among all the benefits, guides you towards your body. This is an activity that you will easily fall in love with, for the entertainment, for the swinging sensation or for the beneficial effects for your spine and the alignment of your body. It associates breathing with movement.

The idea is to challenge yourself to go a little further, trying new body postures in a muscular work (abdominal, arms, legs, and buttocks) that will help you overcome any physical difficulties. It will help you refocus.

Aerial Yoga for Kids

A combination of yoga, dance, pilates and aerial acrobatics that among all the benefits can make us understand the body and refocus.

This activity finds the balance between entertainment - by the sensation of swinging - and all the benefits for the spine and body alignment. It is very easy to fall in love with this practice.

Aerodance

This is a class for those who like to dance without commitment to technique, where it is possible to exercise the body to the sound of music with the most varied rhythms, as for example: samba, salsa, pop, funk, among others.
An exercise that unites exercise and fun and has countless benefits: it burns calories, reduces stress, increases muscular and cardiorespiratory strength, raises self-esteem, and improves motor coordination. For those who want to get their body dancing and sweating, aerodance can provide a loss of up to 800 calories per class.

Aerodance classes are not recommended for those who suffer from serious cardiac problems or back problems.

Street basketball

We don't want you to lose your technique in dribbling the ball during your summer vacation! Get the family up and challenge them to a very dynamic game of street basketball, 3x3.

The game model contemplates 6 teams with 4 elements each (3+1 substitute), the draw will be made on the day of the activity.

Electric Bike - Alternative Trail

This year embrace the summer with a different purpose.

In this experience, through an electric bike ride, you can get to know the most inaccessible places in Porto Santo and challenge yourself in routes with different types of floor and views.

Walk 0,5km Pico Castelo Footpath

On this walk to Pico Castelo there will be magnificent views, sightings of various species of birds (partridges, birds of prey such as the Buzzard, Kestrel, sparrows, among others) and the discovery of a set of exotic and indigenous species that make the flora of this peak an oasis.

At the top of this peak, you can also see the statue in honor of António Schiappa de Azevedo, a great promoter of reforestation in Porto Santo, responsible for a process of forestation that allowed the control of erosive phenomena evident on this island.

You will finish your walk of 0.5 km at the Canhão Belvedere where you will have a view of the town of Vila Baleira in the background.

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Walk 1,2km Porto das Salemas Footpath

Porto das Salemas, a paradise revealed by the low tide in an infinite number of natural pools.
This is a 1.2 km walk that can only be done on foot along the northern coast of the island. A walk that leads you to a breathtaking view and a salty sea in green and blue tones that will instantly invite you to take a deep breath, contemplate and dive into the warm waters of this enchanting corner.

This activity includes round-trip transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Walk 2,5km Ana Ferreira Footpath

The Pico Ana Ferreira has raised in the last years a lot of curiosity to the visitors, for its singularity and beauty. In this old quarry, the volcanic origin of the prismatic columns that can be observed are considered a "work of art" of nature.

A guided tour, with approximately 2.5 km in a unique geological discovery of this Atlantic Island.

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Walk for the 3rd Age

Body movement is important at any age. This year the project Porto Santo Activo invites you to participate in walks that will be accompanied by a teacher.

The walks can take place in the Pavilion or, if the weather conditions are favourable, in Fontinha beach.

This activity includes transportation to and from the beach if the activity takes place there. Information will be given by the teacher on site, on the day of the activity.

Walk 5,8km Pico do Facho Footpath

This walk offers one of the most sought-after views, Pico do Facho, the highest point of Porto Santo with 516m altitude.

A walk only on foot, on approximately 5,8 km, to discover this important peak that in the time of the Discoveries allowed us to see the approach of pirate ships to the archipelago.

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Golf Clinic

Golf is a sport that can be played by all ages, from the youngest to the oldest. It is practiced outdoors, in an easy game, where learning cannot be improvised.

With a socially rewarding game dynamic, it is a sport that can be played individually or among friends. It offers a wide variety of landscapes and different levels of challenge. For many, it is considered more than a sport, it is a lifestyle.

Break free and come learn the basics you need to make your spin or swing light.

Padel Clinic

Padel is a racquet sport, played in pairs, on a rectangular court that can be totally or partially enclosed and divided by a net. Although this sport had a discrete start, it is currently very popular with all kinds of participants and played all over the world.

Among the most interesting characteristics of this sport, we highlight that it can be played with the family, is easy to learn, and has a huge potential for the exchange of balls and dispute of points since the first experience. It is also important to highlight that this is an activity considered highly addictive.
Reserve your place and let yourself be surprised.

Tennis Clinic

Tennis, a sport for two players or for two doubles, who face each other on the court with the objective of scoring points to the opposing team. A simple game, its challenge is to make the ball pass above the net that divides the court in half, so that the opponent cannot catch or return it.

In the first versions of tennis games, the ball was thrown with the hands. Today this sport is played with a racket and a small ball.

Buildings in Sand

This could be the moment of artistic affirmation you have been putting off!

With 9 km of beach of therapeutic and prized sands, the island of Porto Santo will certainly serve as a great inspiration for your moments of creativity.

Do not put limits to your creativity. Sign up, bring your family, and let yourself go.

Crossfit

CrossFit is a training and fitness program designed to improve the physiological capabilities of any type of person.
CrossFit workouts are guided on three main principles:
• Functional movements, which resemble all daily movements.
• High intensity, for the development of the best physical conditioning.
• Constant variation, a different exercise routine every day.

Surprise yourself with the dynamics of this modality and how your body can adapt to this type of training.

Cycling Schools

An activity that through theoretical and practical classes offers children and youngsters (between 5 and 12 years old) a program that will support their global physical, intellectual and social development, in the practice of this Olympic sport (cycling and mountain biking).

The program includes the development of riding techniques, learning bicycle mechanics, the use of the bicycle as leisure and as a means of transportation, respect for traffic laws, love and defence, and quality of life and nature preservation.

Environment Space

Sessions to be announced soon

Exhibition "Help the Sea Tell Another Story"

The Porto Santo Activo project, completes this year's calendar with the addition of a set of activities under the heading "Active Sustainability", this art installation is one of them.

Resulting from the Poetry Contest "Help the Sea Tell Another Story”, that challenged the participants to write poems that were inspired by the sea and its environmental problems, it now exposes a set of creations that make us reflect and re-evaluate our behaviours on this very current theme.

Born as part of the candidacy of the Municipality of Porto Santo to the Blue Flag award and has the support of Loja do Profeta.

Now on display at the Porto Santo City Hall Building, from Monday to Friday between 9am and 12:30pm in the morning and in the afternoon between 2pm and 4:30pm. With free admission, the circuit lasts approximately 20 minutes.

Hydrogymnastics

Don't miss a beat on vacation, sign up for this class by the sea and stay active.

A class with lots of music and excitement, where you can feel the rhythm of your body through a set of very dynamic and simple movements, excellent for increasing strength and flexibility.

Come and above all, have fun!

II Golf Tournament José Glória Rosado

This event was a tribute to José Rosado, former Delegate of the Regional Government in Porto Santo Island, for his commitment in the construction of the Golf Course and other distinct areas. In fact, it is Porto Santo Golfe itself that, in a note to the media, recalls that José da Glória Rosado was the player who made more rounds in Portugal in a golf course: about 680 rounds per year, a total of more than 85 thousand rounds in the existence of Porto Santo Golfe. In other words, it has played 1.5 million holes in the last few years!

The publicized text recalls that "it all began in 1994 when the Santo da Serra Golf Club asked José da Glória Rosado, then Delegate of the Regional Government on the island of Porto Santo, to install a driving range in the Ponta area during the summer, on land where the slaughterhouse would later be installed.

The challenge was accepted and after installing a container, several mats, irons, wood, balls, and with the guidance of professional João Sousa, José Rosado decided to learn the sport, along with half a dozen youngsters from Porto Santo. With the opening of the Porto Santo Golf course, José da Glória Rosado became the most assiduous player, and it was usual during the first ten years to play 18 holes in the morning and as many in the afternoon.

By Diário de Notícias, on 08/24/2022

Intervention Life Dunas Project

A visit to the intervention area of the Life Dunes Project, at the tip of Calheta, where participants will have the opportunity to see inside the development of this continuous action that has a lot of impact in the prevention of the island as we know it. This activity is included this year in the calendar of activities of the Active Porto Santo project, under the new heading "Active Sustainability".

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Learn more about Life Dunas:
"The Porto Santo beach dunes are a geological structure of coastal sand, unique in the Madeira archipelago, which have developed mainly by the action of the winds and are home to their own biodiversity that is crucial to the regular ecosystem service of the island. They also constitute natural dynamic barriers that prevent the advance of the sea over the territory, protecting it from erosion processes.

Due to anthropogenic action, the integrity of the dune structure along the south coast of Porto Santo is vulnerable, requiring long-term sustainable solutions to restore it as close as possible to its original state, improving the island's resilience and adaptation to climate change and extreme weather events.
The main objective of this project is the restoration of an area of the dune cordon, heavily affected by anthropogenic action, thus mitigating the effects of rising sea level, namely the erosive trend seen in Porto Santo in recent decades, through measures that add sedimentary resources to the coastal system, allowing it to be more resilient.

Besides the coordinating beneficiary, the Regional Secretariat for the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change (SRAAC), through the Regional Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change (DRAAC), this project has 5 partners, namely the Office of the Vice-President in Porto Santo (GVPPS), Porto Santo Municipality (CMPS), the Institute for Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN, IP-RAM), the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Rural Development (SRA) and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL)", by Porto Santo Municipality.

Coastal cleaning - Calhau Serra de Dentro

"The project "Porto Santo Without Marine Debris", started in September 2020 with co-financing from the EEA Grants Environment Program. It brings together as partners AIDGLOBAL, Madeira Water and Waste, the Municipality of Porto Santo and ARDITI and also has the support of WWF Norway and the Regional Secretariat for Environment and Climate Change.

It aims to identify the flow and discharge of plastic waste, while promoting the optimization of its management and raising awareness among the local population and tourists about the problem caused by plastic waste in the oceans.

Together we want to stop the escape of plastic into the ocean and thus contribute to the differentiation and enhancement of the island of Porto Santo", by Porto Santo City Hall.

This campaign to clean the coast in Calhau da Serra de Dentro, is part of the calendar of activities of the project Porto Santo Activo, which this year raises the flag of sustainability with the new heading "Active Sustainability".

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Coastal cleaning - Ilhéu de Baixo and Commemoration of the World Nature Conservation Day

On July 28th the World Day for the Conservation of Nature will be celebrated, a milestone created in 1988 by the UN General Assembly, with the purpose of making people aware of the preservation of the environment and encouraging the urgent need for its conservation.

Having Portugal mainland and islands a great diversity of environmental heritage and, not being Porto Santo Island an exception to this fact, the Municipality of Porto Santo invites you to participate in this action of coastal cleaning to the Ilhéu de Baixo, which has as its main objective the awareness of the resident population and visitors for the care and preservation of great biodiversity and ecosystems that this island has.

This action will be integrated in the calendar of activities of the project Porto Santo Activo, which this year embraces several dynamics for the new heading "Active Sustainability".

The access to the Ilhéu de Baixo is made by sea, so it is important that the participants have a good physical condition.

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Lighthouse Tour Ilhéu de Cima and Tasting

A very complete tour, departing by boat from Porto Santo marina and heading to Ilhéu de Cima, where after disembarking you will have a breath-taking and panoramic view of Porto Santo. On the way up to the lighthouse on foot, you will have plenty of species - fauna and flora - specific to the area to observe, as well as places of geological interest.

Next to the lighthouse, you can taste local and regional products, on a journey of flavours and knowledge that will end with a snorkelling experience near the pier, in an area considered a Marine Reserve since 2008.

This activity includes transportation to and from the location where the activity will take place.

Horseback Riding

Horseback riding is a unique experience, when experienced as a family it can easily be one of the most memorable moments of your vacation.

In this activity all horses are trained and safe, can be performed by anyone with or without experience.

This summer, be closer to nature. Let yourself go.

SUP Yoga

Breathing in, breathing out, and allowing the body to go further.

Nowadays the practice of yoga classes has become more and more frequent. Usually, these participants want to learn to be calm and gain balance in their daily life.

This summer, come try Sup yoga, a combination of yoga and stand-up paddle. A new trend that will help you regain your inner peace, focus on yourself and your surroundings.

Charity Golf Tournament Portuguese League Against Cancer

The basic concept of the Active Porto Santo project contemplates, from the first moment, the awareness to the environment that surrounds us. For this reason, the brand included the Solidarity Golf Tournament - Portuguese League Against Cancer in its calendar of activities for this summer and invites you to participate.

This event, organized annually by Porto Santo Golf and the Regional Center of Madeira of the Portuguese League Against Cancer has as main objective the raising of funds to help cancer patients and their families. Each registration has a value of 25 euros, which will revert in full to the cause.

In August, we will turn our attention to this project, which will play the "Stableford Net" modality with a greater purpose.

Participate, have fun, and support this cause.

Padel Tournament

Live the summer months the way you like it best, on the courts.

This tournament disputes the draws in Supertiebreak and for the game is given the play the best of 1 Set. Bring your doubles team and your racket and challenge yourself!

SIMPLE GAME RULES

Tennis Tournament

This tournament is designed for those who are comfortable with the best-of-1-SET game model. We're counting on you.

In case of a tie the game will be a Supertiebreak.

Challenge yourself!

SIMPLE GAME RULES

2nd Round
Match D - Winning Player from Match A x Winning Player from Match B
Match E - Winning Player from Match C x Runner-up from Games A, B and C
Match F - Winning players from Games A, B and C

3rd Round
FINAL - Winning Player from Game D x Winning Player from Game E

Beach Soccer Tournament

What if this year you add a victory in beach soccer to your list of achievements? The project Porto Santo Activo opens the scoreboard with the inclusion of this modality in the calendar of experiences.

The game model contemplates 4 teams with 4 elements each (3+1 substitute), the draw will take place on the day of the activity. Sign up, places are limited.

Beach Volleyball Tournament

Let's go two-in-one. Volleyball and beach!

This year there will be many memories you will take away from the beach. Sign up and challenge your favourite team to a volleyball match on the sand.

The game model contemplates 4 teams with 3 elements each (2+1 substitute), the draw will take place on the day of the activity.