Fogo Island Inn

Hospitality in its purest form, is the love of a stranger. The inn does turn a profit but there were other considerations. We're going to put a 29 room in on an island that's never had an inn. Well, how many more people? As one woman said, we're only 25 hundred people. We can only love so many people at a time. Sorefast in the inn employ more than 300 islanders. But the real pay off is the ripple effect. All the furniture at the inn is locally made. Same for the pillows and quilts. It so happened the women of fogo island have been making them for their own homes for 400 years