BWB – From steep to flat

Two extremes lie close together on Madeira’s coast. Capo Girao is well known to travelers to Madeira. Impressive and majestic, Capo Girao rises 580 meters into the air. It is one of the highest in Europe.

You don’t have to be afraid of heights to enter the Sky walk, a suspended glass platform. If you dare to look down, you can see the green cultivated fields below you at a dizzying depth and the town of Camara do Lobos and Funchal in the distance. If you like heights, you can add BASE jumping and paragliding to your holiday experience here.

Near Capo Girao is one of Madeira’s most important pilgrimage sites, the chapel of Nossa Senhora de Fátima (built in 1951)

If you look down, you will see a flat, fertile piece of land to the left. Faja dos Padres has a perfect micro climate in which tropical fruit trees such as mangoes, bananas and avocados produce a rich harvest all year round. Organic farming is very important here. A flat, fertile piece of land is described as a faja. And it truly is. It is extremely relaxing to stroll through the plantation. The cable car takes you down the 250 meter high cliff to the small cape, where you can swim on the small pebble beach, stop off at the restaurant and take a walk through the fruit trees.

It is also possible to rent a room in this unique refuge and enjoy the seclusion of nature.

By Fatima Kutzschbach