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Photos of Casa Os Manos, Santana
The house above Santana, the view from the balcony, the rooms where people sleep and the ones where they sit afterwards. Tap any photograph to see it larger.
What you are looking at
The house and the view
Casa Os Manos stands at about 420 m above the village of Santana, on Madeira’s north coast, with the ridge rising behind it. The wide photograph at the top of this page is taken from the balcony, looking across the valley towards that ridge. The aerial shot is the house at dusk, with the north coast behind it; the terrace picture is early morning, before the cloud has come down off the mountain.
The four rooms
Eight rooms in four types, each booked on its own. The Superior Deluxe Room is the largest room in the house, with space to spread out — the one to take for a longer stay or a slower pace. The Superior Room with Balcony opens onto a private balcony over the valley, where the morning sun arrives first and the cloud on the ridge is easiest to watch. The Double or Twin Room has twin beds made up as a double on request, in a calm room away from the lounge. The Single Room is a quiet room on the upper floor, built for a solo walker who wants nothing extra — own bathroom, a window on the valley, and boots that dry by morning.
Where people sit afterwards
The rest of the photographs are the shared rooms: two lounges, one with a sofa and a wood-burning fireplace, the other set up with board games; and a games room with a pool table. They are the reason people come back down off the mountain at four in the afternoon rather than six.
Rooms are booked individually, or you can take the whole house. Minimum stay is two nights.