{"id":4572,"date":"2023-05-08T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bslthemes.com\/kinsley\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2023-05-14T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T22:41:13","slug":"balcoes-viewpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/2023\/05\/08\/balcoes-viewpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Balc\u00f5es Viewpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4572\" class=\"elementor elementor-4572\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7be3e2bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7be3e2bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-898b6a6\" data-id=\"898b6a6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-324531cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"324531cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">The Balc\u00f5es viewpoint offers wide views over the Ribeira da Metade valley. It is a picture of monumental proportions, dominated by the Laurissilva forest.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">On days with good visibility, you can see the Central Mountain Massif of the island, where Pico do Areeiro, Pico das Torres and Pico Ruivo stand out.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Besides those, we should also point out Penha d&#8217;\u00c1guia, a peculiar geological formation.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">To reach the Balc\u00f5es viewpoint, you must take a short 1.5 km trail.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Vereda dos Balc\u00f5es begins at Ribeiro Frio, then follows the Levada da Serra do Faial as it crosses the typical dense Laurissilva woods.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">The hiking experience is embellished by the exotic vegetation.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">The Balc\u00f5es viewpoint is the ideal place to come into contact with tree species endemic to Madeira, from the Lauraceae family, such as the laurel tree (Laurus novocanariensis), the Til (Ocotea foetens), the Madeira mahogany (Persea indica) or the Lily-of-the-Valley tree (Clethra arborea).<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Besides these, there are also exotic deciduous tree species, such as the oak (Quercus robur) and the maple tree (Platanus x acerifolia).<\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Finally, the Balc\u00f5es viewpoint offers the possibility of meeting (and sometimes even interacting with) some bird species, such as the endemic finch (Fringila Coelebs madeirensis).<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Balc\u00f5es viewpoint offers wide views over the Ribeira da Metade valley. It is a picture of monumental proportions, dominated&#8230; <span class=\"knsl-el-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/2023\/05\/08\/balcoes-viewpoint\/\" class=\"knsl-btn\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more&nbsp;Balc\u00f5es Viewpoint<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[23,24,198],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places","category-travel","tag-tour","tag-travel","tag-viewpoints"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grannysfarm.pt\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}