11:38It’s not often I return the Azores to my home town of Achada in Nordeste, São Miguel. With a population of approximately 600, situated on the northwest coast with stunning ocean views, village life becomes clearer after a few days. Modest and simple living is the order of the day, live on what you have, […]
A group of nine islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Azores belong to Portugal and settled in 1439, the capital is Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island. This archipelago has formed the Autonomous Region of Azores in 1976. The Açores are actually the tops of some of the tallest mountains on the planet, as measured from […]
11:38Achada, from the Portuguese for “flat-land”, is a civil parish in the municipality Nordeste on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. The area known as Achada, once referred to as Achada Grande, was originally populated in the first half of the 16th century. Its name was derived from the Portuguese phrase terra achanada […]