Understanding Pico’s wine landscape
It explains Pico’s wine-growing history and techniques, closely tied to its lava landscape and stone-walled vineyards.
Museu do Vinho | Pico
Near Madalena, the Wine Museum explores Pico’s vineyard culture from a former Carmelite complex surrounded by vines and stone walls.
The museum provides context for Pico’s protected wine landscape: vineyards here are an adaptation to lava, shaped into small plots by basalt walls.
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Photo informationPhoto: José Luís Ávila Silveira / Pedro Noronha e Costa · Public domainSource
Time needed1h30
AccessIn Madalena do Pico
PLACE · LANDSCAPE · EXPERIENCE
Why this place belongs on the journey
The museum provides context for Pico’s protected wine landscape: vineyards here are an adaptation to lava, shaped into small plots by basalt walls. Museu do Pico states that the museum occupies the former Convento do Carmo, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
It explains Pico’s wine-growing history and techniques, closely tied to its lava landscape and stone-walled vineyards. Its displays connect the site with the Verdelho wine cycle, including the press, stills, vineyard and old dragon-tree woodland. Near Madalena, the Wine Museum explores Pico’s vineyard culture from a former Carmelite complex surrounded by vines and stone walls.
It pairs naturally with the vineyards around Madalena and Criação Velha because it explains how the landscape and wine culture fit together.
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What to know
The Verdelho wine cycle
Its displays connect the site with the Verdelho wine cycle, including the press, stills, vineyard and old dragon-tree woodland.
Viticulture between lava and basalt walls
The museum provides context for Pico’s protected wine landscape: vineyards here are an adaptation to lava, shaped into small plots by basalt walls.
Why pair the museum with the vineyards
Near Madalena, the Wine Museum explores Pico’s vineyard culture from a former Carmelite complex surrounded by vines and stone walls.
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It pairs naturally with the vineyards around Madalena and Criação Velha because it explains how the landscape and wine culture fit together.
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