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Rates & avialability per week

Period	Price
from November to may	1380.00 €

Rates & avialability per night

Period	Price
from November to may	220.00 €

Rates & avialability per month

Period	Price
from November to may	4000.00 €

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Stunning Villas with sea view/Ref: 6562
Owner Name	Mr Amr Ashour
Tel	00351 91 7587703
Tel	00351 91 7587703
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Palheiro Village

Palheiro Village is situated on the south east coast of Madeira Island, 10 minutes by car from the capital, Funchal, and 15 minutes from the airport. Palheiro Village is an attractively designed and well-located development of freehold apartments and villas forming a closed condominium of only 85 luxury units with private car parking, landscaped gardens, and facilities including pool, pool bar and reception.

Properties range from 1 and 2-bedroom apartments to 3 and 4-bedroom villas, designed by Portugal based, international architect Michael Brown. Traditional in design and high in specification, they set new standards of comfort and quality.

Funchal

The port and town of Funchal is architecturally pleasing with the added attraction of its decorative paving. The 15th Century Convento de Santa Clara is well worth a visit and also to learn the tragic story of the nun, Maria Clementina. The 16th Century church Igreja do Colégio dominates the main square. There are several museums worth visiting, from sacred art to local handcrafts. The quality of the Madeira Lace is world known and it continues to be produced with over 20.000 cottage industry workers scattered over the island. Another equally famous product is the Madeira wine. A visit to the Adegas de São Francisco to learn how it is made and stored as the oldest bottles still existing dates from 1772! For fun there is the special and unusual dry toboggan ride on the Monte.

The hidden valleys and peaks of the Island all deserve a visit together as do the several botanical gardens, some of which are part of old private residencies open to the public. A trip around the island has to to take in the village of Santana on the north coast where the visitor will still see the traditional triangular shaped homes of the islanders. For the healthy at heart is a trip to Pico do Areeiro and climb to the highest point on the island at 1.862 metres. Most visitors find too much to do on the island, and too little time! A very special time to visit is over the New Year’s Eve which is world famous for the quality of its celebration.

Madeira

Madeira is a mountainous island with lush tropical vegetation, an abundance of flowers, flowering shrubs and trees, a stunning coastline and breathtaking scenery - a perfect place to be at any time of year. Daytime temperatures are very mild, 25ºC in the summer and 19ºC in the winter, with a moderate level of humidity. The seawater temperature is also very mild, averaging 22ºC in summer and 18º in winter.

Madeira lies between latitude 32º and 33º with its longitude between 16º and 17ºW. The island is 55km from east to west, 20km from north to south and has a surface area of 741km2. Situated 800km from the African coast, it is 1 hour 30 minute flight time from Lisbon and 3 hours 30 minute flight time from the UK. The archipelago is made up of the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo and the uninhabited islands of Selvagens and Desertas.

Most of the population of around 260,000 people lives on the south side of Madeira, about 95,000 of them in the main town of Funchal. Portuguese is the native tongue but English is widely spoken. A mere 40 km north east of Madeira, two and a half hours by boat or just 15 minutes by plane, lies the austerely beautiful island of Porto Santo.

Drier and flatter than Madeira, it measures 12km by 7km and has about 5,500 inhabitants, most of whom live in the tiny port of Vila Baleira. With its tempting warm waters and eight kilometres of golden therapeutic sands you will find it one of the most relaxing places to be. The cost of living in Madeira and Porto Santo is about 75% of that in the UK.

When you arrive in Madeira, take a good look around. The pleasant soothing colours invade the senses with the different shades of green set against an azure sea – the hallmark of the subtropics. But they also tell of rain. This is not to say that it rains all the time or most of the time. But it does rain sometimes.

Now that the shock has been administered lets start again. Most people who live here find that Madeira has just about the most perfect climate in the world. It is never too hot (temperatures can get up to around 33 °C when the ‘Leste’ - east wind coming from the Sahara desert - blows for a few days every year) averaging a maximum of 24 °C during the summer months (July through to October) and a minimum of 17 °C. During the winter average temperatures drop by approximately 4 °C.
The island is full of small microclimates. The bay of Funchal, protected by the highest peaks, enjoys the best of sunshine. Further down the west coast at Ponta do Sol and Calheta, backed by the lower hills of the Paúl da Serra, the sun shines brighter during these months, but they are less protected from the sea winds.

The prevailing wind is the North Easterly Trade that gathers off the Portuguese coast and runs down to the Cape Verde Islands. It brings moisture and large sea swells to the north coast, and often, particularly in the morning, adversely affects the weather on the eastern end of the island between Caniço and Caniçal. However in a westerly wind these areas can be surprisingly dry and sunny whereas the south and west coasts are duly soaked.