Da singularidade de uma ilha à distinção de uma paisagem

Abstract

In the context of the nine islands of the Azores, Pico is a young island. Island of the recent geological constitution, shaped by man and fire, forms unique landscapes that are completed in the sea and that would involve multiple works. It is an island of stone landscapes, especially to the West. A landscape of unproductive lava where the man built a network of corrals, planted vines, and brought out a good wine, appreciated and celebrated: the verdelho. The distinction of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture Landscape is the distinction of a landscape built by people with an extraordinary capacity for work organization. People with the soul beauty that represents «the triumph of man over the brute forces of nature». That is his biggest distinction.