To discover this volcano and its composition, it is best to go on foot. In a re-built house near the light-house, a museum charts the different stages of the eruption of 1957-1958. Between Capelinhos and Praia do Norte, you will pass through Morte Pequeno, whose houses are still buried in ash, then a mistério (flow of lava from the eruption of 1672) covered by hortensias, cedars and mango trees.