Menu of this site

The village of Rabaçal

Published page
Headings[Photos] [Presentation] [Situation] [Visits] [Culture] [Practical Information] [Other topics]

[Previous topics] [Madeira] [Parent topics] [Via Gallica]

PresentationPresentation

General presentationGeneral information
. Click to enlarge the image.A small sinuous road is inserted under foliations and leads to the refuge of Rabaçal (put of Rabaçal). Withdrawn and wild, it is one of the preferred places of Madériens, which come spade-to screw Sunday there. The lauraceous ones proliferate there and a beard of lichen covers the vast crowns of the trees.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.

SituationSituation

. Click to enlarge the image.Rabaçal is located on the high plateau of Paúl da Serra at the center of Madeira, with 1070 Mr.

VisitsVisits

Levada do Risco
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.Near the refuge of Rabaçal (1 070 m), site of Vinte E cinco pig iron and cast iron (“twenty-five cascades), of which one, Risco, reached 100 m height. The spectacle of the mountains to the odd forms, whose path leading to the Cast iron da Pedra (5 H of walk) follows the peak, is particularly impressive when the sea of clouds is dominated.

This levada is located in the west of the island, to 1000 m of altitude on the plate of Pául da Serra.

Departure since Regional Road ER-110 above Rabaçal. One can park his car at the entrance of a small road closed by a barrier, opposite a tank which feeds da hydroelectric station of Calheta.

Coordinates: latitude 32.754848 NR; longitude 17.133919 O

. Click to enlarge the image.To descend to foot the narrow road (on 2 km, to count 30 min), or to borrow the shuttle service (paying), until a group of some houses of Rabaçal.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
To take, on the right, the paved path marked out like PR 6; with a junction, to take on the right to continue towards the cascade of Risco (Cascata do Risco).
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
One km separates the dwellings from Rabaçal of the rock basin and the cascades of Risco.
. Click to enlarge the image.
One walks initially 5 min in the forest then, on the comfortable way of the levada.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
One reaches a point of view from where one can see the cascade falling 100 m in height in a stone amphitheater. The continuation of the path is prohibited because too dangerous.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.Cascade of Risco. Cliquer pour agrandir l'image.. Click to enlarge the image.
. Click to enlarge the image.
Levada das Vinte E cinco pig iron and cast iron
. Click to enlarge the image.After having reached the cascade of Risco, to reconsider its steps and, with the junction, to take on the right while descending the path from the levada of the twenty-five sources to reach a basin where the air resounds of the murmur of the 25 sources.

The excursion along these two levadas takes approximately 4 hours for 11 km, with uneven of 300 meters in rise and as much in descent.

. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.. Click to enlarge the image.

History and traditionsHistory, literature, arts, traditions, legends, religions, myths, symbols…

HistoryHistory
House in 1888. Cliquer pour agrandir l'image.
. Click to enlarge the image.Cascade in 1888. Cliquer pour agrandir l'image.Cascade around 1940. Cliquer pour agrandir l'image.

InformationPractical informations

HotelsHotels
Hôtel Pico da Urze

Other topicsOther topics

Filiation of the topics
More detailed topics
Close topics
The village of Achadas da Cruz
The village of Santa
The village of Ribeira da Janela
The village of Seixal
The village of Rabaçal
Broader topics
Madeira
The town of Calheta
The town of Porto Moniz
[Previous topics] [Parent topics] [Home page] [Madeira] [Via Gallica]
Search on this Site
Search on the Web
Recommend this page
Recommend this site
Translate this page
AlbanieAllemagneAngleterreArméniePays basqueBiélorussieBulgarieCatalogneCroatieDanemarkEspagneEstonieFinlandeFranceGalicePays de GallesGéorgieGrèceHongrieIrlandeIslandeItalieEmpire romainLettonieLithuanieMacédoineMalteNorvègePays-BasPolognePortugalRoumanieRussieSerbieSlovaquieSlovénieSuèdeTchéquieUkraïne
If you reached this frame directly, click on this link to reveal the menus.