Jardim do Mar
Cliff-foot fishing village with a seafront promenade facing a famed big-wave point break.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jardim do Mar, a cliff-foot village on Madeira's southwest coast, turns on a protest in its central square in the early two-thousands, when a surfer named Will Henry arrived with a few dozen others, a stack of signs and a camera crew. It follows a regional government's promise of a seawall and the villagers who believed in it. Listen from the seafront promenade, facing the point.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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