Webcams:
Lido beach

  • The Museum Centre – The Lime

    The Museum Centre – The Lime Route has several interests, considering natural and cultural heritage values. Placed at Sítio dos Lameiros, Municipality of São Vicente, this centre encloses an area close to 12 000 m2 where, besides its local landscape beauty, we find two limestone quarries, a lime kiln and other constructions used to support farming and cattle-raising, such as haylofts, cultivation fields and levadas (water channels), very typical of Madeira’s landscape

  • History

    Near the Barrinho stream, at 475 meters of altitude, there are two quarries semicircular in section, placed at a sea limestone outbreak with fossils from the Miocene (over 5 millions years old) unique to this region of Madeira Island

  • Route

    The lime kiln house was built with stone masonry partly plastered inside and outside, occasionally using limestone from the quarries.
    The lime kiln structure has nearly 6,30meters in height and a conical pot that narrows from top (2,20meters diameter) to bottom

  • Limestone quarries

    Near the Barrinho stream, at 475 meters of altitude, there are two quarries semicircular in section, placed at a sea limestone outbreak with fossils from the Miocene (over 5 millions years old) unique to this region of Madeira Island

  • The farm and cattle raising structures

    Integrated in a rural environment the Lime Route Museum Centre preserves some buildings and characteristics typical of Madeira’s rural landscape, such as the haylofts, cultivation fields, levadas (water channels), an irrigation poll and a transport cable.

    The pathway that goes through this site maintains its old configuration and allows us to appreciate all the beauties this site has to offer

    CLIK HERE