of the implantation in the land and harmony with nature. Seen from above, the houses, maybe because of jealousy, run to the seas, accompanying Ribeira Grande, which has for four centuries have filled the navigable waters that crossed between the Old and New World. Between cereal fields of corn that circle the white homes, a road of black asphalt serpentine between greenery. If a biblical paradise existed by the sea...we could think that this corner was part of it... The 2011 Lorca earthquake was responsible for creating a special wetland around the coast of Fajazinha. Baptized the Lagoa do Rolo, it has become the most westerly lake in Europe, although it is considerably small, spawning a small habitat for migrating birds from North America, during the fall (including the hawfinch and the hooded merganser). Architecture Civic Haylofts of Ramal (), a series of two-storey basalt buildings used for the collection of hay and stores for the winter months; Watermill of Ribeira da Alagoa (), a 19th-century watermill consisting of an "L"-shape structure that served as home and workplace for a corn miller, today used as museological pole to perpetuate agricultural history. Religious Church of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (), triple nave structure constructed through the dedication of Father Alexandre Mesquito, and later supported by contributions of its parishioners (resulting in the addition of the belltower). References Notes Sources Freguesias of Lajes das Flores