Skip to content
Explore Madeira

📡 Today's status

The IFCN's official status, read every day. Green only when the IFCN writes « aberto » with no reserve.

● Open · ABERTO

The accessible version of the Levada do Caldeirão Verde. Under the "Um caminho para todos" label, this section was adapted so that people with reduced mobility or visual impairment can also walk in direct contact with the forest: about 2 km along the levada's walkway between the Queimadas and Pico das Pedras forest parks, in the municipality of Santana, in 45 minutes, almost flat (870 – 890 m) — hence the "easy" grade used here. You follow a transition edge between Madeira's natural forest, the Laurissilva listed as World Heritage by UNESCO in December 1999, and the exotic forest planted by people. At Queimadas, the Casa das Tradições Madeirenses keeps the original features of Santana's houses, thatched roof included, with a collection on everyday life and old customs. Queimadas car park charged at €2 per hour.

Highlights

  • Accessible (mobility, sight)
  • Queimadas
  • Pico das Pedras
  • Casa das Tradições Madeirenses
Difficulty
Easy
Length
1.9 km
Elevation gain
20 m
Duration
45 min
Price
€4.50 (over 12) · SIMplifica booking · free for residents and under-13s · Queimadas car park €2/h
Municipality
Santana
🎟️ Book on SIMplifica🗺️ See the route on the map📍 Start🏁 End

Track for guidance only.

Places within 2 km of the route

  • 🌿 Nature

    Parque Florestal das Queimadas

    Above Santana, one of the island's most visited forest parks, by visitors and residents alike, for its scenery and biodiversity: tils, pau-branco, centuries-old heaths, folhados and uveiras of the Laurissilva, mixed with Madeira cedars, cryptomerias and copper beeches; the endemic chaffinch, firecrest and trocaz pigeon, grey wagtail and buzzard. The Casa de Abrigo das Queimadas, with the thatched roof of Santana's houses, has become the "Casa das Tradições Madeirenses". Start of PR 9 Levada do Caldeirão Verde and of the accessible PR 9.1 to Pico das Pedras; picnic area, restaurant-café, shop, bird hide, paid parking and toilets.

    Park free · paid parking (€2/h) · paid toilets
    🗺️ See it on the map
  • 🔭 Viewpoint

    Miradouro das Empenas

    On the road climbing to Achada do Teixeira, just past Picarouto, at the forks of the Santana mountains. The view runs along much of the east coast, from the parish of São Jorge to Ponta de São Lourenço, the island's eastern tip; on clear days Porto Santo shows up to the north-east. The access road is open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

    🗺️ See it on the map
  • 🔭 Viewpoint

    Miradouro do Picarouto

    Inside the Pico das Pedras Forest Park, on the Estrada Regional 218 linking the city of Santana to the Achada do Teixeira plateau. The panorama stretches from São Jorge to Ponta de São Lourenço, with Penha d'Águia (about 600 m) marking the boundary between Santana and Machico; on the other side stands the central mountain massif, part of the Region's Network of Natural Monuments. The road is open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

    🗺️ See it on the map
  • 🔭 Viewpoint

    Miradouro da Cova da Roda

    Access is not the easiest: you reach it on foot along a cobbled way, one of the first roads that linked Funchal, on the south coast, to Santana, on the north. The reward is a wide panorama over the ragged outline of the north coast, dominated by Penha d'Águia (about 600 m), the boundary between Santana and Machico, with Ponta de São Lourenço in the distance.

    🗺️ See it on the map