São Vicente Caves

Madeira · Portugal

São Vicente Caves, Portugal
Photo: Koshelyev, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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These volcanic lava tubes on the north coast formed nearly 900,000 years ago and were opened to visitors in the 1990s. A guided route through the dark tunnels leads to a volcanism centre explaining how the island rose from the sea.

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