Private Tours Azores

Lomba de São Pedro, Ribeira Grande — a parish since 15 September 1980, the least populated in the municipality, which grew by 22% between 2011 and 2021

Formerly a place belonging to Fenais da Ajuda, Lomba de São Pedro has only been a parish since 1980. It is the most distant and least populated in the municipality of Ribeira Grande, yet it went from 284 to 348 inhabitants between 2011 and 2021. It has a 19th-century church with the royal arms on the chancel arch and a trail of mills and waterfalls.