Madeira's system of irrigation channels, known as levadas, carries water down from the mountains on gentle gradients and provides a ready-made system of trails.
Madeira's irrigation channels which transports water down the mountains create a system of trails.
The fighters of the underground Resistance movement were heroic, but they were a tiny minority, a few of them conservative patriots like de Gaulle, most of them socialists and communists, and also a handful of refugees from Eastern Europe.