Autor: Marta Silva

Perched on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal stands out among its neighbors as one of the oldest and yet most traditional and conservative European civilizations. Visitors can view 22,000 year-old Paleolithic art on the rock faces of Vale do Coa, and human occupation of this region dates 500,000 years back in time! The Celts settled here around 750 B.C. and were followed by Romans, Visigoths, and Greeks among others. The Moors enjoyed their infamous occupation from the 8th to the 13th Century and left their culture and ornate, whitewashed architecture as an eclectic signature on the Iberian Peninsula, levadas madeira. Today, Portugal's homogenous culture and dedication to tradition is largely due to Salazar's oppressive rule during the mid-1900s. As a resul...

How did the idea for IZISERVE come about? We recently had two restaurant experiences that made us look for a practical solution: 1. Every time we would go to a busy restaurant, the servers response time would be inordinately long. In order to get the server's attention, we would have to wave and raise our voices. This situation even deterred us from placing some orders we would have made otherwise. When the time came to ask for the check, we had to wait so long for the server to notice us, we decided to go to the bar counter and pay the check there. The question that arose was, would we go back to that restaurant the next time we had a meeting? The answer was, probably not. The mistake made in this case, was not on part of the employees wireless call system, but in the set ...

The museum is located at Praça do Mar, a square that stretches across the main port in Funchal, the capital of Madeira and where Ronaldo was born on 5 February 1985 (that’s on the plaque, too). He is indisputably the most famous son of the city and of Madeira, an archipelago located 600 miles south of the Portuguese mainland that is inhabited by just over 267,000 people and draws thousands more in tourism each year, due, in part, to its fine wine and even finer weather. His enjoyable looks accumulate when his awesome repertoire of CR7 Museum soccer behavior and a trace of trademarked Cristiano Ronaldo goals made him achieve the level of fame upon which he is basking in the spotlight sun today. This ronaldo museum madeira biography will attempt to have enough portion you through his c...