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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. |
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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.
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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.
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