Private Tours Azores

São Roque, Ponta Delgada — the church of Rosto do Cão, held to be the first Baroque church in the archipelago, and Milícias beach

Officially Rosto do Cão (São Roque), the parish east of the city keeps a church by the sea that already had a vicar before 1568 and works dated from 1619 to 1750. As for where the name Rosto do Cão comes from, there is a hypothesis — and it stays a hypothesis.