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São Roque do Pico
The main town on the north coast is São Roque do Pico, which actually consists of two distinct parts: São Roque itself and Cais do Pico, named after its long quay where most of the town’s life takes place. Boasting a very secure harbour with a long and massive jetty wall, Cais do Pico has become the island’s most important container transhipment harbour and the second most important fishing port after Madalena. The old quay opposite the old whaling factory, which is used by local fishermen, a passenger boat provides a regular service to the neighbouring island of São Jorge. Also within the harbour area is the island’s second whaling museum, the Museu da Industria Baleeira, located since 1994 in the old whale-processing factory where the old processing machines and boilers document how industrial whaling was carried out. Shadowed by the omnipresent Pico Alto is the former Franciscan Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara, still a notable sight despite the fact that this once magnificent building complex is slowly falling into ruins. To the convent belongs an adjacent church, which was built during the first quarter of the 18th century and houses an almost completely gilded main altar.
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