Calhetas

The picturesque small village of Calhetas is situated on the northern coast of the amazing São Miguel Island, on the Ribeira Grande region, Azores Archipelago.

Towering above the vast Atlantic Ocean, this small village has as main activities agriculture and fishing, in a place of great beauty and peace of mind.
Calhetas presents a rural architecture, with monuments such as the Nossa Senhora das Mercês Chapel or the Calhetas House, a manor house dated from 1723 that once was the only closure Convent in the Azores, from where one has privileged panoramas over the vast Atlantic Ocean, and nowadays adapted into a lovely accommodation unit.