{"id":59379,"date":"2026-10-14T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59379"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:49:35","slug":"levada-caldeirao","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/es\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/madeira-region\/levada-caldeirao\/","title":{"rendered":"Levada do Caldeir\u00e3o Verde"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Madeira had only one walk, it might be this one. The Levada do Caldeir\u00e3o Verde follows an 18th-century water channel along the face of the island’s greenest mountains, in and out of four rock tunnels, under waterfalls, through the dripping laurel forest, until the channel reaches a perfect amphitheatre of cliffs where a stream falls a hundred metres into a dark green pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking the water road<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The walk starts at the Queimadas forest house above Santana \u2014 itself one of the island’s traditional thatched A-frame houses \u2014 and runs almost level for 8.7 kilometres to the Caldeir\u00e3o Verde, through the Laurissilva forest classified by UNESCO as World Natural Heritage. A torch is essential for the tunnels, where the ceiling drips and the water flows underfoot; the drops beside the unfenced channel are real and the basalt is slippery when wet. At the far end, the great green cauldron of the waterfalls rewards the walker with one of the quietest, most beautiful places in Macaronesia. Other classic heights of the island, the summit of Pico do Arieiro<\/a> and the cliffs of Ponta de S\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o<\/a>, complete a walking itinerary of Madeira at its most elemental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n