Cabo Girão
Towering sea cliff with a glass-floored skywalk above farmed terraces at the ocean's edge.
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This guide to Cabo Girão, the sea cliff near Câmara de Lobos on Madeira, starts at the bottom, with a farmer named Manuel stacking boxes of tomatoes on the thin fields below the skywalk. It follows the people who farmed that shelf of land and the ways they got there and back, by boat and on foot. Best heard standing on the glass, looking straight down.
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