Travel Guide Ribeira Chã

This small town between Lagoa and Vila Franca do Campo is especially interesting for its museum complex, one of the most important on the archipelago. You can visit three museums: one agricultural, one ethnographic and one of sacred art. It's a great way to kill three birds with one stone and learn a lot about the archipelago. The region takes its name from the ravine that runs alongside the valley and empties into the sea, through a grotto of cliffs and rocks. Until the 17th century, it was a small village known as a hunting ground for guinea fowl, but few people settled there due to its difficult accessibility.