Experience
Wine & Heritage
Four hundred years of terrace.
A calm afternoon on the terraces above Câmara de Lobos. The vines are trained overhead the way they have been for four hundred years. Ends with espetada on a laurel skewer.
FUNTER
- Highest point
- 450 m
- Length
- Half day
- Stops
- 03
- Price
- 80 €
Where the road takes you.
Not a timetable. The island decides that on the morning. This is the shape of the day and what waits at each height.
01/ 03·0 m
Funchal
Photograph by Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0
01/ 030 m
Funchal
01/ 030 m We leave after lunch, when the light on the terraces is worth having.
02/ 03450 m
The terraces
02/ 03450 m Vines trained overhead on a latada rather than in rows, because flat ground here has always been too valuable to give to grapes. We taste in the shade of it.
03/ 03420 m
The espetada
03/ 03420 m Beef on a laurel skewer over embers, bolo do caco, and no reason at all to hurry.
The practical half.
What to bring
- An appetite
- Nothing else
If the weather turns
Most of the afternoon is under vine or under cover. Rain changes very little.
Where we meet
Afternoon pickup at your door.
Hold the date.
A Nossa IlhaBoarding pass
NI 96
80 €per person
- Length
- Stops
- Class
Other days out.
Photograph by
Alexander Baxevanis CC BY 2.0 · Diego Delso CC BY-SA 4.0 · GerritR CC BY-SA 4.0 · H. Zell CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bjørn Christian Tørrissen CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bex Walton from London, England CC BY 2.0 · Leo-setä CC BY 2.0