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Levada
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Levada 

the Russian name for a permanently or temporarily fenced area in a natural or cultivated long-term pasture for maintaining and grazing horses during the summer. Levady are set up near stables. Permanent levady have feed boxes and sheds to shelter the horses in inclement weather.
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The Levadas Madeira is famed for its wonderful fortified wine and Madeira cake.
Walking the Levadas of Madeira by Lorraine Waddell / Travel, recreation and leisure community
The island holds an annual walking festival, with tourists following the paths of the levadas which bring abundant water from the north of the island to the otherwise-parched south.
In famous footsteps; It is famous for its cake, vintage port and ... by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
The walk in question, near Sao Jorge in the north of the island, was along one of Madeira's levadas - the 1300-mile network of irrigation channels that have been bringing water down from the mountains for centuries.
Travel: IT'SACAKEWALK; A drop of Madeira offers sun, fun and fabulous ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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