The island integrates the sea, mountain and vineyard scenography to invite our guests for a genuine, unique and personalised travelling experience offering the best of its human and natural heritage.
In Pico Island the travellers should not miss:
• trying out the rich local gastronomy and its fresh and pure local ingredients as well as the local wine celebrated by Tolstoi in “War and Peace”
• to take part in the local festivities such as:
- the Espírito Santo banquets, prepared by the local population and offered in a communitarian table where soups, stories and laughs are shared by locals and visitors;
- bull running and whaling vessels regattas;
- celebrations on the private wine cellars which follow the harvest;
• to discover the whales, dolphins and sperm whales which inhabit the island's waters, to climb the 2351m Pico mountain, trekking the trails surrounded by luxuriant flora and fauna, fishing some of the most astonishing specimens the sea has to offer;
• visiting the vineyard landscape – UNESCO World Heritage Site, and to get to know the stories of the ancient whale hunters, among other unique experiences.
