Landscapes-43
by Joseph Amaral
Title
Landscapes-43
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Joseph Amaral
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Photograph - Lumda Pro Prints
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The largest of the nine islands – and considered by some to be the most beautiful – Sao Miguel is also the most populated island, with 150,000 inhabitants. Known as The Green Island because of its fertility, Sao Miguel is the economic, political and intellectual centre of the archipelago. Its major city, Ponta Delgada, boasts the island’s chief trading and fishing port, and houses one of three international airports.
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December 27th, 2015
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Maria Faria Rodrigues
Over, 500 years old, I can trace my ancestors, to 1599, but in historical papers, farmers were named, in 1488. The official date of the discovery of the Azores is 1427 by the Portuguese explorer, Diogo de Silves. The first settlement of the island of Santa Maria: 1439. The island of São Miguel was settled in 1444, by Gonçalo Velho Cabral, he started at the town of Povoação. The island of Terceira, settlement started in 1450. The island of São Miguel (2020-1444) settlement is 576 years old.
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