Teleférico da Rocha do Navio
Santana
- Partly covered
- From 3
- No price published
- Just turn up
Madeira's first cable car, from 1997: five minutes down the Santana clifftop to the black-pebble shore of the Rocha do Navio nature reserve.
Short, cheap and quiet, and what waits at the bottom is a wild pebble shore with vines and banana plants rather than a garden or a café. Treat it as a bonus on a Santana day and not a reason to drive north - it is out of service often enough that families arrive to a locked gate, and nobody publishes when.
Worth knowing: Bring cash, there is no card machine and no sign saying so, and have a plan B: the Santana traditional houses and the theme park are both ten minutes away. The clifftop viewpoint is worth the stop even when the car is not running.
Opening hours
- Mon
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
- Tue
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
- Wed
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
- Thu
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
- Fri
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
- Sat
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
- Sun
- 09:00-13:00, 14:00-17:00
Prices
No official price list exists. Visitors in 2026 report about 8 € return, older accounts 5 €, cash at the top station. There is no child fare.
Season
Closes for maintenance and in bad weather, with no online status page.
Getting there
Prices and opening times change without notice, and on this island they change often. Everything here carries the date it was checked in our research notes; if a place has moved or closed, tell us and we will fix it.