Well known
The north-coast town of triangular thatched houses, inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
The casas de colmo are small A-frame houses with a thatched roof that reaches almost to the ground, painted white with red and blue trim. They were the ordinary farmhouses of the north coast, built from what was at hand: wood and straw.
A few in the town centre are kept open for visitors. Others, further out, are still simply somebody's home.
A tipSantana is the gateway to the Queimadas forest park and the Caldeirão Verde levada, one of the greenest walks on the island.
- From Funchalabout 45 minutes by car
- UNESCO Biosphere Reservesince 2011
Taken home
At the end of the route, in Funchal, four artists draw whatever you bring back from the island: a place, a flower, a word, a set of coordinates.
The outline of the island
Madeira in a single line.