Porto da Cruz

Madeira · Portugal

Porto da Cruz, Portugal
Photo: Virgílio Gomes, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
spring
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A green amphitheatre of terraced vineyards drops to a black-sand bay on Madeira's rugged northeast coast, framed by the sheer Penha de Águia rock. The village keeps a working sugar-cane mill that still presses rum by steam each spring.

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