Viewpoint over Camara de Lobos Madeira Portugal
by Brenda Kean
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Viewpoint over Camara de Lobos Madeira Portugal
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Brenda Kean
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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Camara de Lobos a fishing village near the city of Funchal Madeira has some of the highest cliffs in the world. Camara de Lobos is believed to be the original landing point for the Portuguese discoverer João Gonçalves Zarco, who is credited with the discovery of the Madeira Islands.The name, lobos, is a Portuguese derivation for sea-lions, which were the animals discovered by Zarco and his men in the sheltered bay.Winston Churchill loved to paint this village
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January 15th, 2018
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