Terra Nostra Garden

The Terra Nostra Garden Hotel is located in the mystic Furnas Valley next to a botanical garden and park of rare beauty and renowned throughout Europe. Enjoy the Camellia collection, the azalea woods, flower gardens, endemic plants, fern garden and many more plants and vegetation. Or you may go for a swim in the outdoor thermal natural swimming pool.The hotel stands a short drive from pleasant volcanic beaches and a fine golf course. The hotel features 86 rooms and opened in 1935.The interior of the new garden view wing rooms is tastefully renovated in Art Deco style blending harmoniously with the spectacular environment. The interior of the old renovated wing is tastefully furnished with an older period motif.Hotel services include exercise room, heated indoor pool as well as an outdoor hot spring water swimming pool, tennis court, croquet field and games room; Panoramic restaurant, bar, reading lounge, banquet and conference facilities and a private car park.

One of the earliest references to Furnas came from the harvesting of trees in the valley of Furnas, in order to assist the construction of many of the homes destroyed by the 1522 earthquakes and landslides in Vila Franca do Campo. This includes numerous trees used to rebuild the parochial church, a project begun by Donatary-Captain Rui Gonçalves da Câmara. In 1553, his predecessor Manuel da Câmara, issued an edict to re-plant these trees after the area was nearly deforested, and roadways were expanded under his son, Rui Gonçalves da Câmara, in order to develop the area, allowing cattle herding in the valley after 1577