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Ponta Delgada - our final port

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May 2nd 2017
1st May Ponta Delgada Our final port of call was Ponta Delgada on the island Sao Miguel, Azores. This is a remote Portuguese archipelago some 760 miles west of Lisbon in the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of nine islands in three groups and was first settled by Gonçalo Valho Cabral in 1439, there is a statue of him at the city gates. The land commands a high price beca ... read more

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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