The house emerges from the revitalization of a ruin that after more than 30 years of abandonment, was fully recovered gaining new life, with two rooms available for guests. For the reconstruction, we used local materials, incorporating the house and the magnificent scenery surrounding the area of Winery. The house owes its name to a huge fig that existed inside the house while it was in ruins, occupying the entire area of the kitchen. In the process of rebuilding the tree removed from the inside, but today the fig grows again on the outside of the house, offering in late September figs of excellent quality.
I have been doing holidays in Azores for 20 years, until one day we decide to by a ruin to rebuild. After traveling to all Azorean islands we choose Pico because it's pure nature and people are really nice. Nature, Mountain, Sea, Tradition, Adventure, outline in simple words the Pico Island. Reasons enough for us to rescue an old cottage, creating an element integrated into the rural heritage of Pico Island.
Land of Tradition and Culture, allows you to find stories of other times, about life in Pico, the Mountain, the fishing of whales. Pico is an amazing island we have to confess we believe that's one of treasures of nature, and to be completely honest we believe that the place we have the house (Calheta de Nesquim) is one of the most beautiful places in the island. Pico is an island where the most striking features are the rural and the whaling tradition, together with an unusual situation in nature in its raw state, where in fact you can walk into many places where human intervention is very low. People are generally very friendly, yet reserved on first contact. Like to welcome and to be helpful with those who arrive, and in a short time it’s possible to build a nice relation. On the activities actually taking place at Pico, I suggest that you visit the tourist offices, in our case is the closest of Lajes do Pico, where they can request information about the parties on the island at the time of your visit.
