Palheiro Gardens
Hillside estate gardens around an old hunting lodge, with camellia avenues and a garden tea house.
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This guide to Palheiro Gardens, on the hills above Funchal in Madeira, is set on one day in 1901, when John Burden Blandy of the Madeira wine family laid on a picnic banquet for the King and Queen of Portugal. It follows the lunch spread across the lawn before the Counts of Carvalhal's old hunting lodge, the estate once mocked as a white elephant, and a younger Blandy who ends up on the tennis court. Best heard near the Tea House beside Casa Velha.
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