Fortim do Faial

At Faial, on Santana's north coast, an 18th-century battery built to watch for invaders, today a leisure space and lookout: a semicircular plan following the slope, an outer wall, the lower two thirds set forward, an ashlar coping, and ten small English cannons that once defended the spot. A monument of local value since 1996, much visited for its view of Faial, São Roque do Faial, Porto da Cruz, Penha d'Águia and Ponta de São Lourenço. Open daily at the hours shown.