The Associação Caminho Real da Madeira (ACRM) is promoting a tour of the island, using the old routes “recovered” from our common history. The proposal of the ACRM will, in this case, start in Machico, and in stages varying in length between the 15 and the 30 kilometres per day, aims at completing the round in eight days.
They will mostly be using CR23, which was always the most important, and being made out of, not only the stretches that allowed the completion os the ring of Madeira, but also all the connections between his route and the small harbor that would dot the coast.
The ACRM has created, to be use from this date, a sort of passport that walkers can have stamped in the network of associates, throughout the island, and thus collect “certificates” of passage through the various “points” that make out these routes.
The ACRM aims not only the recovery of the paths and their use by walkers, allowing them to see less well known spots of the island, but also increase the yeald of local commerce, increasing the number of passer byes on the small shops that make out the trade in rural Madeira.
More information, on the Associação and on their trip, can be found in www.caminhoreal.pt or on facebook Caminho Real da Madeira.
