Vila Echium

Holiday Villa

Ten minutes by car from Funchal, the capital of Madeira, there is a villa area called Garajau. The place is named after a sea-bird, the tern, which in former days had its haunt on the impressive rocks where they were living in multitudes.

Garajau is inhabited by the upper middle class people of the capital of the island, residing in lovely villas in beautiful gardens.

This is a fairly quiet area, however, just two minutes by foot, there are restaurants and take away, supermarkets and a bakery.

Villa Echium is one of these villas. Only 40 years old, it was designed by the famous Dutch architect van Velden. It now consists of two separate apartments. The top floor apartment has two bed rooms, sleeping 4 persons, and the ground floor has one bed room, but with the possibilities for sleeping 3 persons. The top apartment, with its classical interior decoration, has a terrace with view towards the sea and is surveying the garden. The more modern decorated ground-floor apartment has its own direct way out to the garden from the living-room and from the bed room.

The garden is furnished for sunbathing. It has a lively pond with fish, frogs, turtles and water plants. There is also equipment for grilling.