Fanal Forest
Misty upland pasture of centuries-old laurel trees, grazed by cattle and wrapped in drifting cloud.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fanal Forest, high on Madeira's Paul da Serra plateau, starts with the fence that went up around its oldest trees in November twenty twenty-five. It follows the til laurels back past the Portuguese arrival of fourteen nineteen, and asks who really shaped their strange, low silhouettes. Best heard on a foggy day, standing at the edge of the cropped pasture.
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