On the north side of the island of Pico, the whaling industry settled in São Roque do Pico. To learn all about its history, we begin our tour at the Whaling Industry Museum. In 1946, the Fábrica das Armações Baleeiras Reunidas was set up here, the largest and most important sperm whale processing and transformation complex in the Azores, which operated until 1984.
De seguida, visitamos a Casa dos Sofias, um centro de exposições que alberga cerca de 200 peças feitas em osso e dente de baleia, que permite conhecer os testemunhos da baleação através da arte do scrimshaw.
Next, we visited the Casa dos Sofias, an exhibition centre that houses around 200 pieces made from whale bone and teeth, allowing us to see the testimonies of whaling through the art of scrimshaw.
