Food: People eat well in Corvo. Their diet is based on pork, beef, poultry, fish, milk and cheese. Each family kills, on average, two, three pigs per year. Couves da barça (cabbage stew with salted meat) and Borrás (fried and ground coirates) pies of erva do calhau (pebble grass), sausage and meat greaves, are typical dishes. Delicious. The forkbeard, the seabream, the grouper, the blackmouth, the cherne, the goraz, the rocaz, the chicharro, the garoupa, are among the most abundant fish.

Consecration: Among the elders, faith in the Holy Family is still alive. The "boxes" with her representation (three little shrines made of precious wood) have been rotating from house to house for 50 years, where they welcome, among oil lamps and wax candles, prayers of consecration.

Corsairs: Pirate brigands sought out Corvo to supply themselves with flour, poultry, meat, and water. Some paid generously for everything they received. Some commanders, like the corsair Almeidinha, were friendly with the local vicar.

Structures: The community services include a post office, two bank branches, a health unit, a pharmacy, garbage collection, fire station, GNR station, kindergarten, playground, multipurpose pavilion, a municipal library, kindergarten, camping site, day care center, retirement home, school up to 12th grade, car mechanic, Galp pump, three grocery stores, three cafés, two restaurants, a guest house, five local accommodation houses, a camping site, equipped with a kettle, tables, benches, a well for washing clothes, toilets and showers with hot water, a "disco" (BBC lounge), a (municipal) bakery and several professional fishermen.

Reading: The town hall became one of the first to be computerized in the country. Its library, offered by Gulbenkian, has more than twenty thousand volumes. It was one of the busiest in the European Union. There are no illiterates on the island.

Connections: There are three weekly flights connecting Horta, Ponta Delgada and Flores to Corvo. In the summer months Sata has flights from Monday to Friday and Ariel has daily trips except Wednesday.

Places: Morro da fonte, Morro dos Homens, Caldeirão, Coroinha, Serrão Alto, Lagoas, Ilhéu Pequeno, Braço, Cancela do Pico, fonte Velha, Praia da Areia, Porto da Casa (the primitive one, where the pirates used to get supplies), Boqueirão, Porto Novo, Cancela do Pico, Palheiros, Fojo, Furna dos Franceses, are the main places in the geography of the island.

Population: The initial population resulted from the mixture of colonists and slaves from Terceira, from the mainland (algarvios and beirões) and Florentines. "Men were dumped on the island like cattle", reports Frei Diogo das Chagas.

Queen: A woman ruled the island with a firm hand in the second half of the 19th century. Her name was Mariana da Conceição Lopes. "Daughter of a priest", evokes Brandão, "she ruled over everything and everyone. She wore a cape and boots when the people went barefoot. She even became the Queen of Corvo".

Temple: The parish church, built in 1674 and rebuilt in 1755, is dedicated to Our Lady of Miracles, patron saint of the village, whose festival is held on August 15, together with the famous Festival of the Mills.

Expressions: The most said expressions are "Today here! Tomorrow in Corvo!", "In Corvo it's just like that!"