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PS-PR 2

Vereda do Pico do Castelo

PS-PR 2, Vereda do Pico do Castelo, is a classified walk on Porto Santo. IFCN publishes the distance as 3,2 Km/4,6 km. The passing places on the IFCN list are Moledo – Pico do Castelo. The list marks it open. visitmadeira lists the difficulty as Easy and the duration as 2:15 hours. visitmadeira gives the start and end as Moledo / Canhão Viewpoint. visitmadeira gives the maximum and minimum altitude as 435 m / 225 m. visitmadeira publishes the distance as 4.6 km.

Open

Automated from official data. IFCN list

Open.

IFCN, in Portuguese: ABERTO

IFCN list of 2 October 2026. Conditions change. Check before you go. IFCN.

visitmadeira’s badge on 30 October 2026: OPEN. If that disagrees with IFCN, IFCN is the status we lead with.

FactFigureSource
Distance3,2 Km/4,6 kmIFCN
Passing placesMoledo – Pico do CasteloIFCN
Managed byIFCNIFCN
DifficultyEasyvisitmadeira
Duration2:15 hoursvisitmadeira
Start / endMoledo / Canhão Viewpointvisitmadeira
Altitude max / min435 m / 225 mvisitmadeira
visitmadeira distance4.6 kmvisitmadeira

Booking

Payment for classified walks is on SIMplifica, the service named on the IFCN page. IFCN’s fee note exempts residents of the Autonomous Region of Madeira who can show it, children aged 12 or under, and people with a disability of 60% or more (and a tutor with them) when they show a document. IFCN fee FAQ.

Fee, where a page states one

Route

IFCN publishes more than one length (3,2 Km/4,6 km). OpenStreetMap relations 5740534, 5740536 are not shown, so the page does not pick a line. The line is © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. OpenFreeMap tiles load only after you open the map. A brown dot marks the start of the OSM line.

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