Casa do Calhau Grande - "The House built from the Rocks"

Above the rocks looking out to the sea of Calheta, 30 minutes from the city of Funchal, is Casa do Calhau Grande, an ideal location for those who appreciate the calmness, the agricultural surroundings and nature. Its name, Casa do Calhau Grande (House of the Great Pebble), originates from the great rocks of basaltic origin, “calhaus”, which you find there, some 5 meters high, a place that locals are still finding older rocks.

You can see old houses in madeiran traditional style, acquired by the current proprietor, in 1995 and reconstructed, by the owner, in 1997 and 2004. The construction was renewed in accordance with the models of the region, with local rock, carefully constructed, in order to protect the surrounding ecology, tracing its original, the harmony and the integration in the landscape.

Casa do Calhau Grande, with a panoramic view of 180º on the Atlantic, fits in the natural, country environment, in perfect harmony with the typical rustic look of the region, and provides a calm, healthy stay of great pleasure.

The Enterprise consists of 6 independent houses, with privacy, in a rustic and comfortable environment, framed for the spectacular beauty that the seaview and the energy of the rocks provide to them.

With private parking, a good choice of gardens, pool, wireless internet access, agricultural land with fruit trees, vegetable gardens and aromatic herbs that are of high biological quality.

We would advise that this is not an ideal place for someone who has difficulty in negotiating steps or who has problems with heights, as well is to recomend that children, between two and eigth years old, must be always controlled by their parents, because this place has stairs, swimming pool and some high balconies! But is exactly the height of this little complex is what makes it so spectacular.