Parque Natural do Ribeiro Frio
Misty laurel-forest reserve with a trout hatchery and levada trails to a valley viewpoint.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parque Natural do Ribeiro Frio in Madeira starts with a sum that refuses to work: an island of modest size and a web of hand-cut water channels far longer than it. It follows the Portuguese sugar planters, their Genoese backers and the convicts sent to dig, and asks what the island was really short of. Best heard among the laurel trees by the cold stream that gives the village its name.
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