Rabaçal
Mountain viewpoint over a spring-fed laurel forest valley, gateway to the Risco and 25 Fontes levadas.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Rabaçal viewpoint in Madeira follows one old water channel, the Levada Velha do Rabaçal, from an engineer's survey of the springs in seventeen sixty-eight to the crews who dug it in the nineteenth century. It weighs the soaking north against the parched farms of the south, and the convicts and state money that tried to join them. Best heard at the rail, looking down into the valley.
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