Food of São Miguel, Azores - Fascinating tastes of the island

 

At the table, the Island of São Miguel, also dazzles the most demanding tastes. From the furnas stew, to the best bolos lêvedos, the famous São Jorge’s cheese, the tuna steak, the tasty mussel and the freshness of the magnificent freshly caught fish, there is a lot to lose your head over. The best thing to do is to invest in tasting the best that the island has to offer on a culinary level and then to move on to the walking tours in order to digest the extra pounds and be astonished by the views.

Ponta Delgada, Azores - Churches and monuments built with volcanic stone

The whitewashed walls contrasting with the Portuguese pavement of black basaltic rock from Ponta Delgada no longer abandons the memory of those who visit it. In the churches and monuments built with volcanic stone, the history and the memory of its past are kept, evoking the time when it consisted on a simple fishing village, later evolving to a stage of greater development, especially after the great earthquake that devastated the old capital of Vila Franca do Campo, becoming a town and then a city in the reign of the Portuguese King João the 3rd.