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Those who were involved in the newspaper organized the Visita dos Intelectuais (Visit of the Intellectuals) to the archipelago in 1924. Similarly, its members contributed to the Autonomy Decree of 16 February 1928, that suggested a small decentralization of services to the Junta Geral do Distrito Autónomo de Ponta Delgada.
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...
Meanwhile, instability was aggravated by separatist protests and the surge of the Azorean Liberation Front (Frente de Libertação dos Açores, FLA). These movements grew after the April 1975 meeting in Angra, which envisioned the creation of a Province of the Azores (Província dos Açores), and the abolition of the General Councils. This plan ...
Grande Lisboa: PT1A0 Grande Lisboa: PT1B Península de Setúbal: PT1B0 Península de Setúbal: PT1C Alentejo: PT1C1 Alentejo Litoral: PT1C2 Baixo Alentejo: PT1C3 Alto Alentejo: PT1C4 Alentejo Central: PT1D Oeste e Vale do Tejo: PT1D1 Oeste: PT1D2 Médio Tejo: PT1D3 Lezíria do Tejo: PT2 Região Autónoma dos Açores: PT20 Região Autónoma dos ...
Ponta Delgada is the traditional centre of the annual religious celebrations associated with the Feasts of the Lord Holy Christ of the Miracles (Portuguese: Festas do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres), from the Saint Francis Square (Portuguese: Campo de São Francisco), located opposite the Fort of São Brás. This venerable feast day and week ...
At the state level, the Day of the Azores corresponds to Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas (Portugal Day), instituted by Portuguese decrees 51/92 (11 April 1992), 39B/78 (2 March 1978) and 80/77 (4 March 1977). [2]
The lake is situated within the caldera of the Sete Cidades Massif, an ancient volcano built on various layers of ash, pyroclasts and trachyte and basaltic lavas.It is a stratovolcano constructed from alternating phases of explosive and effusive ejecta, from dominantly basaltic pre-caldera eruptions, a trachytic caldera-forming stage and a post-caldera stage consisting of alternating trachytic ...
Caracterização da actividade vulcânica da ilha de S. Miguel (Açores): vulcanismo basáltico recente e zonas de desgaseificação. Avaliação de riscos. Tese de Doutoramento no ramo de Geologia, especialidade de Vulcanologia. Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Geociências. p. 248. Ferreira, T.; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001).