Capelas, Ponta Delgada — the municipality's only town, the council that lasted fourteen years, and the whalers' chimney

On the north coast, the only town in the municipality of Ponta Delgada was a municipal seat between 1839 and 1853 and a centre of sperm-whaling. Of what was done there a chimney remains — and there is no museum, whatever you may have read.