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The Best Levada & Walking Guides

Madeira is one of the world’s great walking islands. These are the guides that map its levadas, peaks and trails.

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Walking on Madeira

Paddy Dillon · 2018

Cicerone guidebook describing 60 day walks across Madeira and Porto Santo, covering mountains, coast, forest and the classic levada routes, with sketch maps and GPS data.

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Madeira

Rolf Goetz · 2025

A Rother Walking Guide with 70 of the finest levada and mountain walks on Madeira, including GPS tracks and detailed route maps.

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Madeira Walking Guide

John Underwood, Pat Underwood · 2026

The long-running Sunflower Landscapes guide to Madeira: 100 long and short walks plus 6 car tours, with large-scale topographic maps and downloadable GPS tracks. The latest (16th) edition.

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Levadas and Footpaths of Madeira

Raimundo Quintal

A guide to Madeira’s iconic levadas — the hand-cut irrigation channels that thread the mountains — by geographer Raimundo Quintal, combining cultural and historical background with practical footpath descriptions.

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Madeira Walks

Oliver Breda · 2018

A Trailblazer walking guide with 37 selected walks across all regions of Madeira — from easy levada strolls to mountain hikes — with large-scale trail maps, altitude profiles, transport notes and downloadable GPS tracks.

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Madeira Tour & Trail Map

David Brawn, Ros Brawn · 2019

A detailed double-sided 1:40,000 walking and touring map of Madeira showing walking routes and the road network, available in paper and super-durable editions.