As a whole, São Miguel Island is still very well preserved, with Nature being the strongest presence, regardless of the tea production or the famous dairy products that the Island provides, such as the wonderful milk and terra nostra’s butter and magnificent cheeses that make very special any table displaying them. The entire architectural ensemble is harmonious, with a particular profusion of flowers that are often used as partitions between properties, as is the case of the intensely colored hydrangeas that search the soil’s iron for its own tonalities.
Undoubtedly, anyone who has traveled the world finding destinations that stand out for their exoticism could not be more surprised than I was in finding such a pristine paradise right at my home’s doorstep. Here, in this archipelago where it is said that even the cows are happy grazing freely in ever green fields, it was magnificent to find a piece of Eden that, for maximum delight, is Portuguese.
