Casa do Cais Apartment:

Location:

The rustic and typical fishermen's self-catering apartment is located in some of the best seafront beach in Madeira. That is, the unique and peculiarly attractive narrow basalt pebble beach that runs on the southern end of the Paúl do Mar village. In the past this was the stretch that many fishermen would "park" or moor their boats. A hop after that they would step into their homes. Right on the seaside!

Paúl do Mar is one of the "freguesias" or parrish counties of the Municipal district of Calheta in Madeira. "Calheta" is translated roughly as "Creek" in English and is spoilt for its rough natural beauty and wide oceanic vistas from nearly everywhere.

Until the late 1960s the only way to access the sleepy quiet fishing village was by boat. For the next thirty or odd years cars would descend slowly down a dangerously precipitous track built for modern vehicles bu which might have better been suitable for goats. Then only a few years ago a tunnel was built that dramatically changed the way people travelled in and out of the village. For the first time Paúl do Mar was only forty minutes away from the capital of the island Funchal by car. Fortunately the new communication route has not spoiled the romantic fairy tale aspect of the village - with its old seamen hovels, thatched huts, and all.... Peculiarly, many small fishing homes are still literally some five metres off the sea shore.

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