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No one is immune to the charms of the farms of Madeira Island and their knowledge has deserved the attention of scholars such as Raimundo Quintal, Rui Vieira, Sainz Trueva or Francisco Clode. Unfortunately, some have already disappeared or been cruelly disfigured by the cupidity of short-sighted entrepreneurship. Today, fortunately, the idea prevails that they are an irreplaceable value, oasis of history, clean air, botanical and architectural diversity, especially in Funchal, being urgently restored creating the conditions for private companies to thrive.
The references of travelers to Madeiran farms are more than four centuries old. It is, however, throughout the 19th century that these testimonies become more abundant. By that time, Madeira was beginning to be a well-known therapeutic tourism resort throughout Europe.
The writer Júlio Dinis, who between 1869 and 1871 was in Funchal in air healing, wrote, with some boldness, that "to live well in Madeira you have to live in one of these cottages. Raul Brandão, in 1924, was also not immune to the sensual appeal of these sweet refuges of intimacy: "this was done to live isolated with a woman and voluptuous, between the walls of the sumptuous farms where the vegetables overflow". He knew there........
This magnificent Quinta nos Ilhéus with 1500m2, consists of a pure English-style mother house, with gardens, endemic and exotic plants, all the surrounding pavements in typical Madeiran sidewalk. Inside the Quinta besides the mother house there are 2 more townhouses typology T6 and T4 with its magnificent ceilings worked, being the access of the same all individual. By location, quality of real estate although for recovery, it would be ideal for implementing a small luxury hotel unit.
6Paulo Garcia, Miguel Ornelas and 4 others