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The Quinta Sabino is a sun spoilt villa located near, and just before entering, the former whale fishing village of Caniçal, in the municipality of Machico, Madeira Island. The villa is divided into two parts: a bottom floor, with two bedrooms for four adult guests, and a top floor - which is reserved for the private use of the owner of the villa for the odd and infrequent weekend stayover.

The villa was built for leisure. It has a large swimming pool that sits on a small mound overlooking the Atlantic ocean. There is a sauna next to the pool and a games room. The greatest feature of the villa is the amount of garden space and yard there is about the villa and the amount of leg room there is to be had. Indeed the villa has some 40,000 m² of land about it that is owned by the same proprietors as the villa. Plans are in the making for the building of tennis courts and a dam (there is a stream that runs by near the villa that should be great for fishing or boating in the future).

The style of the villa is similar to villas you might expect in the south of Spain or in the Algarve in the summer. That is, white washed walls, green shutters, airy and sunlit rooms, and mediterranean plant life. Except that, unlike the continent, the weather is excellent, mild and warm all year round. It enjoys some of the best weather conditions you can expect in Madeira.

Madeira is made of many different micro-climates, and the village of Caniçal and the area extending towards Ponta São Lourenço are considered the driest and sunniest on the archipelago - it has the least rainfall of any part of the island.

The view towards the ocean is also something precious. The Desertas islands in the distance (see the photo alongside) add some mysterious wonder to the gorgeous deep blue expanse of the Atlantic ocean - it is also the main view from all the bedrooms and the living room in the villa.