CASA DO MACHADO

Time has stood still here. In what was once José's parents' house, nothing has moved. A table, a china cabinet, pots and pans, a corn-leaf mattress, tools for working in the fields. José has added a number of objects he's borrowed or received, such as the armchair of what was, for years, the island's only barber. So many witnesses to a time when life in the middle of the Atlantic was hard work. Admission is free, the door to the house is always open, and to the right of it there's a jar where you can leave a coin if you've enjoyed your visit.