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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 ...
Corsica (/ ˈ k ɔːr s ɪ k ə / KOR-sik-ə; Corsican: [ˈkorsiɡa, ˈkɔrsika]; Italian: Corsica; French: Corse ⓘ) [3] is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland , west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north ...
Corte (/ ˈ k ɔː r t eɪ /, / ˈ k ɔː r t i /; French:; Italian:; [3] Corsican: Corti, ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department, on the island of Corsica, France. It is the fourth-largest commune in Corsica after Ajaccio , Bastia , and Porto-Vecchio .
Map of the Azores Islands (1584) by Abraham Ortelius. The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
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This is a list of airports currently and formerly served by the Portuguese airline Azores Airlines (formerly SATA Internacional) as of January 2024, and separately from the domestic operations of its parent company SATA Air Açores. The list includes destinations operated by charter in addition to regularly scheduled services.
Piana (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
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 ...