Piscinas Naturais do Porto Moniz
Seawater pools set in black volcanic rock, refreshed by Atlantic waves and sheltered from the surf.
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This guide to the natural pools of Porto Moniz, on Madeira's north-west tip, looks past the swimming to the black lava around you and what lives on it. It follows a small shellfish that islanders have been prying off these rocks since the fifteenth century, and the village harbour that trades in it. Best heard sitting on the pool edge, with the Atlantic breaking beyond the wall.
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