Beside the Foz da Ribeira do Faial bathing complex stands a prismatic, or columnar, disjunction: regular columns born of the slow cooling of a lava flow. The regional forestry institute has classified it a Natural Monument, one of the ten on Madeira island. It is visible from the pebble beach and its natural pool, without leaving the complex.
Natural monument
Santana
Columnar basalt
GPS
32.79222, -16.84917
🧭 Getting there
The place stands in the locality of Guindaste, parish of Faial (Santana).
