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The chapel would have been built in the 13th century then restored at the end of the 14th / beginning of the 15th century. Destroyed during the revolution, its stones were used for the construction of a guard house on the coast. Today in ruins, it still retains its charm and especially this splendid rose at the bedside, like a stone lace, which dates from the early fifteenth century. The chapel is one of the best representatives of the architectural style of Pont-Croix.

The Chapel of Mary the Miserable is a Brabantine Gothic style building from the 14th century. At the beginning of the 14th century, a villager named Mary had decided to live in seclusion and to renounce the world. One day, she met a rich lord of Brussels who tried to seduce her, but Marie resisted him, so he had her judged for theft, vagrancy and witchcraft. She was condemned to be buried alive. Miracles having occurred at the place of her execution, a pilgrimage developed and the chapel was built.

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The history of this hermitage is linked to João Vaz Corte Real who, before moving to Terceira Island, traveled to several provinces of the kingdom of Portugal in an attempt to gather workers and craftsmen to bring with him to Terceira Island. When he arrived on this island, he settled in the Captaincy of Angra, while Álvaro Martins Homem settled in the Captaincy of Praia. It is possible that this same group of sailors had come to this island after João Vaz Corte Real was already there, it is assumed that they were the ones who built this chapel with the help of the donee's Captain and several noble families who with him They came to Terceira.

The temple, dedicated to Our Lady of Hope, dates back to the 16th century, taking into account that it already existed in 1560 and has since become a place of pilgrimage. It served as a parish church, probably due to work on the main church. For this reason, the hermitage ascends to the category of church. According to local tradition, similar to what is recorded in relation to other Azorean temples, the primitive image was found in the rocks of that coastal stretch and, when transported to the parish church, at night it returned to its origin, where it was erected. the temple.

On the side of the hill just below the large Chevremeont basilica is this small chapel which, dating from 1688, is much older than the basilica. It was built by English Jesuits who had founded a college of philosophy and theology at Liege. Slowly this chapel has become the objective of a walk on the hillside and a site of devotion to the Virgin. It was classified in 1985 and, curiously, it is a pilgrimage site for sportsmen.

Building mentioned as early as the 12th century, but the first chapel was destroyed by a rock that fell from the cliff in the 15th century. The site will be entirely restored because of its dilapidated state in the 19th century.

Dedicated to Notre Dame de Bon Secours, and established according to tradition on a former monastery, it was known as Notre-Dame de la Croix in 1540, and marked the boundary of the Pennaroff suburb. A small building paved with terracotta tiles, with a rectangular plan dating from the 15th and 16th centuries and restored in 1854, it preserves the remains of 15th century sculpture on the east gable. In the XVIIth century, it is called "Chapel of the Holy Cross" (as shown by a reliquary "of the True Cross", dating from the XIXth century); several bourgeois weddings are celebrated there, and it is used as a starting point for processions, in particular during the Pardon on the first Sunday of October. Its bell is used in foggy weather to guide ships through the entrance pass, of which the Roche du Cochon is not the most formidable danger.

The renewal of the Catholic Church after the Council of Trent (1545-1563) resulted in the revival or creation of numerous small pilgrimages, in particular in honour of the Virgin Mary. Thus in 1654 the priest Petrus Fisch built a Marian chapel at the town gates. In a perspective-effect niche behind the main altar, a Pièta reflects the many sufferings that the population underwent in the 17th century. The veneration of the Passion and the Guardian Angel, portrayed in a number of significant works of art, was also widespread in this era.

Ancient pilgrimage chapel that seems to have been built at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century and restored in the 15th century, following the wars that devastated the region.