The thatch triangles
White and red under sweeping straw.
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Honestly both: the square group is arranged for visitors — but the type is fully authentic, and lived-in houses and barns of the same build scatter Santana's countryside for those driving its side lanes. Take the square for story and photo — the country around it for truth.
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Santana's houses are Madeira's folk symbol: the triangular palheiro huts — white walls, red doors, thatch roofs sweeping to the ground — northern farmers' homes for centuries (the thatch as rain insulation, family below, loft as store) before becoming the postcards' icon. The preserved group around Santana's town square holds enterable houses (shop, information office and an originally furnished house-museum) with real ones scattered through the countryside for the observing eye — the visit a photographic story-hour threading the northern day naturally: Pico do Arieiro's pair (the same road) or the Porto Moniz return's station. Santana itself is capital of the north's UNESCO biosphere — and trailhead of the famous Caldeirão Verde levada (the green cauldron's waterfall) for those making their northern day walk and thatch together.
White and red under sweeping straw.
The famous waterfall levada from its door.
Santana, 9230 (day trip)