Homage to Whalers

The whaling industry played, throughout the nineteenth century and up to the 1970s, a prominent role in the local economy, having had at its peak three different whaling companies operating. From the whale oil was extracted to be used in lighting, as a natural fertilizer, among other purposes. Even today it is possible to visualize reminiscences of this past, in particular, near the Poços de São Vicente Ferreira.
The author of the set of statues is Carlos Amado.
(Jardim Artur Amorim da Câmara - Capelas)