Hilly landscape, near Sete Cidades

Ilhas de Bruma

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August 19th 2019
Following my first week traveling around Portugal, I visited for the first time one of the Azores Islands. I never really thought I would actually visit the Azores because I never heard much about them, but you never know! First thing I've got to say is that the landscape in the Azores is just breathtaking. I booked a week at the Azorean island of Sao Miguel. It is actually the most populated ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Azores » São Miguel

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more