Eight reasons to visit the largest island of the Azores

As Antonio Tabucchi told in "Dame de Porto PIM", we allowed ourselves to be tempted by the call of the Azores and went to the westernmost archipelago of Europe, almost halfway to America. The feeling of remoteness is inextricably linked to the charm of nature able to make us feel in a parallel reality, flooded with craters and trails, wild vegetation in the middle of a volcanic profile.

We focus on the largest island: San Miguel , where the flagship company Azores Airlines flies from Lisbon in less than two and a half hours. Ponta Delgada is unfolding before our eyes, one of the three capitals of the archipelago near the Horta and Angra do heroísmo . More than half of the population, 138,000 inhabitants, live on 745 square kilometres of the main territory, which has the highest point in Pico da Vara.

We synchronize the clocks because they are two hours less than in Spain, and we are entering the home country of the poet Antero de Quenthal and the novelist joão de Melo. Here are the" top 8 " reasons to dive into the island of San Miguel.