History
Casas de Incensos emerged from a small coastal village locally known as “houses behind the islet”, located near Pontas Negras on the south coast of Pico Island.
History
A place shaped by the sea and by memory. Slow travel and off grid accommodation in Azores.
Until the mid-20th century, this settlement was home to families whose daily lives were closely tied to fishing and agriculture.
With the construction of the regional road around 1940, residents sought better access and gradually left the village. Over time, Atlantic weather and nature reclaimed the site, leaving the buildings partially in ruins.
The village consisted of eight structures, including family homes, traditional mills (atafonas) and rainwater cisterns. More than twenty people lived here, within a strong communal fabric shaped by shared labour, music and a deep relationship with the sea. That memory remains present today, not as reconstruction, but as continuity.
As a Tourism Village project, Casas de Incensos maintains the original logic of the settlement, valuing local identity and offering a form of hospitality that is calm, personal and deeply rooted in place.
Casas de Incensos
An Atlantic retreat where time slows down. Far from mass tourism and urban noise, Casas de Incensos offers a way of inhabiting defined by simplicity, light, material honesty and a constant relationship with nature. A place for those who value time, privacy and identity.
(+351) 967 317 922
bookings(at)casasdeincensos.pt
Rua do Bravo 38, Pontas Negras
9930-305 Lajes do Pico – Açores
