Crater Lakes

Porta Delgada: Last Port

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August 15th 2012
October 2008 We arrived in Ponta Delgada as the last European port on our Mediterranean cruise aboard the Princess ship Emerald Princess. Ponta Delgada is a city on the island of Sao Miguel, an archipelago of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal. Our destination was Crater Lakes. When we boarded our bus there was heavy fog in the mountains. We made our way out of town toward the west ... 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