Santana
North-coast farming village of steep A-frame thatched cottages painted red, white and blue.
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This guide to the thatched houses of Santana, on the north coast of Madeira, looks past the postcard colours to the farming families who could afford neither stone nor tile. It follows wheat and rye from a winter sowing to a hand-pulled summer harvest, and asks what a house is when the roof comes out of a field. Best heard standing close enough to see the straw layers.
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