Camacha
Hill village famed for wickerwork, where Portugal's first football match was played in 1875.
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This guide to Camacha, in the hills above Funchal on Madeira, follows Harry Hinton, an English family's Madeira-born son home from school in England in the summer of eighteen seventy-five. It touches a Victorian summer estate, the ball he brought back, and the island business empire that later bore his name in a political row. Best heard standing at the edge of the Largo da Achada, the village's open square.
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