Igreja de São Pedro (Ponta do Pargo)

The parish church of Ponta do Pargo, on the plateau of the western tip. The parish was set up in the mid-sixteenth century in a small São Pedro chapel, reworked in 1599 and 1620; the present building comes from the works of 1851 and keeps nothing of the old one. Mannerist in style, it holds the eye with its bell tower, gabled front and arched portal. Inside is one of the island's oldest pieces: a gilded silver chalice on a six-pointed star base, older than the church itself.