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The Azores have been voted the “World’s Best Adventure Destination” by the 2023 World Travel Awards.
The central Azores consist of the islands of Terceira, São Jorge, Pico, Faial, and Graciosa. Terceira is home to the oldest city in the Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
5. London, England. Sula says you can't go wrong with a trip to the UK in December. "From the spectacular lights on Regent Street to the charming Christmas markets along the Thames, London ...
The first same sex marriage in the Azores took place in Angra de Heroismo in 2010. In 2013, the documentary film, O Carnaval é um Palco, a Ilha uma Festa (The carnival is a stage, the island a party) won the best documentary prize at the QueerLisboa Festival. The film reported on the tradition of drag queens ("matrafonas") at the carnival ...
Pico Island (Ilha do Pico, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈiʎɐ ðu ˈpiku]) is an island in the Central Group of the Portuguese Azores.The landscape features an eponymous volcano, Ponta do Pico, which is the highest mountain in Portugal, the Azores, and the highest elevation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The navigator Diogo de Teive discovered both islands of the Azores' Western Group on his 1452 return from the Banks of Newfoundland following his second voyage of exploration. The Portuguese royal chronicles state that when Teive arrived, he found a statue of a man on horseback , standing on a plinth bearing an inscription in an alphabet they ...
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Santa Cruz grew and quickly surpassed Lajes demographically and in its economic position, finally coopting the politics in the two islands in 1895. On the 18 November of that year, the municipality of Lajes was made redundant, and along with Corvo, it became an integrated municipality from 1895 to about 1898.
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