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Calheta

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The municipality of Calheta is located between the south and the West End of Madeira Island and its area, approximately 116 km2, makes it the most extensive of the Autonomous Region of Madeira. About 12,000 people live here. It is thought that the origin of its name comes from the small bay or cove that serves it as port and that it watched João Gonçalves Zarco when he intended to go ashore. This is the meaning of the word”calheta”. In this locality lies the center of the Arts “Casa das…

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Ingenuity Society Mills Calheta - Sociedade de Engenhos da Calheta Locals 

Ingenuity Society Mills Calheta – Sociedade de Engenhos da Calheta

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Calheta, also has one of the few mills cane sugar still in operation on the island of Madeira, Mill Machinery Society of Calheta , which arose in a period of great industrial development, more precisely in the second cycle of the sugar archipelago that occurred at the end of the century . And early nineteenth century XX . Ingenuity Society Mills Calheta This engine , today represents the link between the historical past and present, in the case of a beautiful living example of our past sweet sugar , especially…

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