Cais do Carvao

Rusting machinery

This old industrial site is just along from the modern Lido and to one side of a small rocky beach where sunbathers lay out on the concrete hard stand above. Cais do Carvao translates to Coal Wharf a...

Recently renovated

This coal warehouse site has recently been renovated and landscaped with old machinery built by Clarke Chapman of Gateshead on display. Information boards erected. Worth a detour if you are in this ar...

Old pier with some history

This is an old pier (1903) that was used by coal burning ships. It was originally called the Pier Wilson as it was owned and operated by the Wilson and Co. Ltd Company. Today much of the much negl...

In the hotel area

Original Text

This place was renewed in February, it has become an appendice of the sea trip, where the Madeirans throw the cane to fish.

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Original Text

It doesn't really worth looking at when you walk over, that's enough. Nothing special.