{
  "project": "Small Guide",
  "type": "place",
  "city": "Pico Island",
  "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
  "place_line": "Ilha do Pico / Azores",
  "country": "Portugal",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/pico-island",
  "updated": "July 2026",
  "symbols": {
    "◎": "Soulful",
    "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)"
  },
  "places": [
    {
      "name": "O Ancoradouro",
      "slug": "o-ancoradouro",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "Areia Larga",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Eat",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Traditional Azorean cooking on a terrace over the little harbour at Areia Larga, the sun going down behind Faial; fish stews, grilled lapas, and cracas, the volcano-shelled barnacles you dig out with a pin.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Cella Bar",
      "slug": "cella-bar",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "Madalena",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Drink",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Azorean wine and cheese inside an award-winning “giant wine barrel” on the Madalena waterfront, all curved staves and whale-belly ribs (FCC Arquitectura, raised over an old wine store); come for the sunset across the channel to Faial.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Whale watching",
      "slug": "whale-watching",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "Lajes do Pico",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Out of Lajes do Pico, the old whaling town; vigias still scan the sea from clifftop lookouts and radio the boats where to steer, the same eyes that once hunted sperm whales now finding them for you.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Lajido da Criação Velha",
      "slug": "lajido-da-criacao-velha",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "Criação Velha",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture, UNESCO-listed since 2004; a black lava plain gridded with thousands of currais, drystone walls built to shelter Verdelho vines from the wind and salt, with a red windmill down on the shore.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Around the island",
      "slug": "around-the-island",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "the coast road",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Circle the island slowly for its nature: lava coast and tide pools, black-walled vineyards, and laurel forest and crater lakes on the plateau inland, the cone of Pico watching over all of it.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Montanha do Pico",
      "slug": "montanha-do-pico",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "the summit",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Walk",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The volcano that is the whole island and the highest ground in Portugal, 2,351 m; a guided up-and-down that is harder and longer than it looks, and worth every metre for the crater rim, the little steaming peak of Piquinho, and the islands laid out below.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Faial",
      "slug": "faial",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "across the channel",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The thirty-minute ferry to Faial, and the reason to take it: from Horta and the caldera the whole cone of Pico stands clear across the water, the view you can’t get from home.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "São Jorge",
      "slug": "sao-jorge",
      "city": "Pico Island",
      "local_city_name": "Ilha do Pico",
      "area": "the Triângulo",
      "country": "Portugal",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The third island of the Triângulo, a long green ridge of fajãs and famous cheese; marked, and waiting for a first crossing.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    }
  ]
}