Levada do Caldeirão Verde PR9
Cliffside irrigation channel through laurel forest and rock tunnels to a waterfall-fed green pool.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Levada do Caldeirão Verde above Santana, on Madeira's north coast, is about why this channel was cut at all, and what two farming villages stood to lose in the eighteen sixties. It follows decades of plans and stalled digging, and two engineer brothers, Aníbal and Adriano Trigo. Best heard with the water running beside your boots, before the first tunnel.
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