Madeira increases rates of pedestrian routes: View new values

O Regional Government of Madeira will increase the fees applied to the pedestrian routes of the region, through a ordinance that comes into force in April next year, announced today Regional Secretariat of Tourism, Environment and Culture.

In a note sent to the editorials, the guardian points out that “the new values come into force on April 1, 2027 and aim to increase investment, ensure better conditions for maintaining the routes, protect ecosystems and promote a more balanced distribution of visitors”.

Madeira residents remain exempt from the payment of access fees for pedestrian routes, says.

The Madeiran executive (PSD/CDS-PP) informs that, for non-resident visitors over 12 years of age, “the overall value of access to pedestrian routes becomes EUR 7,50 per person, applicable to all routes, with the exception of those for which specific fees are provided”.

The access fee to the Areeiro Road, including the route to the Pedra Rija Miradouro, will also be EUR 7.50.

“ Among the exceptions, in the Vereda do Pico Ruivo, in the Vereda da Ponta de São Lourenço, in the Levada do Caldeirão Verde and in the Vereda dos Balconos, the expected value is 15 euros per person. For the Road of the Areeiro, in the specific framework covering the routes associated with Pico Ruivo and Encumeada, the value fixed is EUR 18”, says the Regional Secretariat.

The tutelage adds that the same fee of 18 euros will be applied to the Circuit of Fanal, including PR13 Vereda do Fanal, during the next year, “at the time it is completed and implemented, and to the Network of Routes of the Rabaçal, which includes about 40 km of routes, namely the Levada das 25 Fontes, Levada do Risco, Levada do Alecrim, Vereda da Lagoa do Vento, Vereda da Palha Cargo, Levada Velha do Rabaçal, Vereda do Pico Fernandes and Vereda do Tunel do Horse”.

“On the other hand, the Madeira Travessia, corresponding to the major route, will have a value of 75 euros,” he says.

The joint ordinance of the Regional Secretariats of Tourism and Finance also includes modalities for those who intend to take several routes, and the daily rate for combined routes will be 20 euros, while the securities valid for three and seven consecutive days will have the values of 45 and 105 euros, respectively.

Economic operators maintaining a protocol with the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation will continue to benefit from their own scale, with different values.

The Regional Government will also set a fee of EUR 12.50 per person per day and per site created by the sinking of vessels, a value that will also apply to autonomous diving in the protected areas of the region, “per person, per day and per reservation”.

For economic operators with protocol with the IFCN, the expected value is EUR 8,50.

“ The extension of fees to protected marine areas seeks to ensure that the use of these spaces contributes to the costs associated with its management, monitoring and conservation”, the Secretariat of Tourism, Environment and Culture notes.

The Madeiran government will invest €2.8 million “in the next 365 days, aimed at creating new routes and recovering and improving the existing network”.

“ Among the interventions carried out are works of improvement in the paths of Rabaçal, the recovery of the viewpoint of Ninho da Manta and the creation of a route of Grande Rota ", highlights the guardianship.