Miradouro do Guindaste
Clifftop lookout with glass platforms over the sea, facing a towering rock and the island's eastern coast.
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This guide to the Miradouro do Guindaste, on Madeira's north coast above Faial, begins with the word on the sign: crane. It follows the small coasting boats of the early nineteen hundreds and a viscount born in eighteen forty-three who put his own money into a dock on the shore below. Best heard out on the glass platform, facing the great dark rock of Penha d'Águia.
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