Whale-watching has replaced hunting as a source of income on Pico, says Cathy Packe Lajes, on the south coast of Pico, is a sleepy little v...
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Criação Velha Of advanced age, as its very name indicates (Criação Velha means Old Creaton), it is still the true home of verdelho wine, wi...
Read the story →Lajes do Pico The first settlement on the island. Important fishing and commercial port. Whale hunting centre with a centuries-old tradition...
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Santo Amaro Small village stretching from the small beaching-place for poets to the heights of Terra Alta. Main shipbuilding yard in the Azo...
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Santo António Named after the great Portuguese-born saint, the parish includes the small villages of Santana and São Vicente, with their cha...
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Madalena The trading and communications centre of the island Its position facing Faial and the town of Horta has made it, since line initial...
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After cattle had been put ashore there in the first half of the 15th century, the settlement of the island started in about 1460 when native...
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