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Santa Luzia and the Lajido

What is at Santa Luzia on Pico's north coast?

Quick answer

Santa Luzia is a north-coast parish in São Roque municipality, and the Lajido de Santa Luzia is one of the two areas usually named as the heart of the UNESCO vineyard landscape, with walls running down to the sea.

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The lajido

Santa Luzia sits on the north coast, in São Roque do Pico municipality. The Lajido de Santa Luzia is one of the two areas usually named as the core of the UNESCO vineyard landscape, the other being Criação Velha in the west. Here the basalt walls run right down to the shoreline.

This page is an outline. The parish population, the interpretation centre's opening hours and admission, and the boundaries of the inscribed area have not been checked against a primary source, so they are absent rather than approximated. See Pico's villages.

Also in Pico's villages

Piedade, Pico Piedade is the parish at the far eastern end of Pico, in Lajes do Pico municipality. Criação Velha, Pico Criação Velha is a parish of Madalena municipality on Pico's west coast, just south of Madalena town.