The Enchanted Wood

Madeira's laurisilva is a relic forest — the kind that covered southern Europe before the Ice Age, now a fragment clinging to this Atlantic island. At Fanal the gnarled, centuries-old trees stand in drifting cloud and the whole plateau turns into something out of a fairy tale.

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  Pico do ArieiroMadeira's third-highest peak, often above a sea of cloud, drivable to a summit viewpoint.
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  Fanal ForestA plateau of ancient, twisted laurel trees that appear and vanish in rolling fog above a green meadow.
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  Levada do Caldeirão Verde◆ hidden
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  25 Fontes◆ hidden
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  Ponta de São Lourenço◆ hidden