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Handicrafts - Popular Art - Pico Island - Azores
The hands of the women of Pico create fine crochet lace using traditional or more modern designs, straw hats and rush mats. The hard tooth o...
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Friday, January 4, 2008
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Gastronomy - Pico Islands - Traditional Food Specialties - Azores
Torresmos de porco (small browned rashers of bacon), morcela (blood pudding), linguiça com inhames (Portuguese sausage with yams) and molha ...
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Festivals - Pico Island - Azores
Festival of Bom Jesus - São Mateus Well attended. The parish is colourfully decorated for the occasion. Music supplied by bands. One of the ...
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Holy Ghost Festivals - Pico Island - Azores
A tradition brought by the first settlers and deeply rooted in the population since the aid of the Holy Ghost used to be requested to hold b...
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Holidays - Pico Island - Azores
The crystal blue ocean surrounding Pico is an invitation to fish and to practise underwater observation of the rock formations and rich sea ...
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The "maroicos" - Pico Island - Azores
The volcanic stone prevented the fields from being cultivated. So through year after year of toil the inhabitants of Pico erected the trunca...
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The Vineyards and "Currais" - Pico Island - Azores
The ground was hard, dark lava. But the hand of man transformed it, at the cost of hard work, into vineyards producing wine with a delicate ...
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Volcanic Curiosities - Pico Island - Azores
Pico mountain, the lava beds of the mistérios and the caverns and grottoes that pierce the solidified magma are not the only visible results...
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Quinta das Rosas - Matos Souto - Pico Island - Azores
Quinta das Rosas Park with a great variety of species of trees, including many exotic ones. Belvedere. Matos Souto Forested park, with some ...
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Arcos do Cachorro - Pico Island - Arches of the Puppy - Azores
Impressive group of lavas next to the sea, perforated by many grottoes and tunnels. Volcanic arches over the sea. Rocks with curious shapes,...
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The Grottoes and Caverns - Pico Island - The Charm of the Landscape
The cooling of the lava and the escape of volcanic gases caused the appearance of cavities that take the form of grottoes covered with volca...
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The Mysteries - Pico Island - The Charm of the Landscape
Lava beds originating in eruptions that took place after the settlement of the island, they have locally been given the name of mistérios or...
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The lakes - Pico Island - The Charm of the Landscape
The lakes of Capitão, Caiado, Rosada, Paúl, Peixinho, Ilhéu, Negra and Landroal are situated in the central plateau area which stretches to ...
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The mountain - Pico Island - The Charm of the Landscape
Majestic volcano dominating the island, with an altitude of 2,351 metres. It is crowned by Pico Alto, a round crater with a perimeter of abo...
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Whalewatching in the Azores - Pico Island - The Island of the Whaling Men
Whale-watching has replaced hunting as a source of income on Pico, says Cathy Packe Lajes, on the south coast of Pico, is a sleepy little v...
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Criacao Velha - Sao Mateus - Candelaria - Sao Caetano (or Prainha do Sul) - Pico Island - Azores
Criação Velha Of advanced age, as its very name indicates (Criação Velha means Old Creaton), it is still the true home of verdelho wine, wi...
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Lajes do Pico and Sao Joao - Pico Island - Art and History
Lajes do Pico The first settlement on the island. Important fishing and commercial port. Whale hunting centre with a centuries-old tradition...
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Santo Amaro - Ribeirinha - Piedade - Calheta de Nesquim - Ribeiras - Pico Island - Art and History
Santo Amaro Small village stretching from the small beaching-place for poets to the heights of Terra Alta. Main shipbuilding yard in the Azo...
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Santo Antonio - Sao Roque do Pico - Prainha do Norte - Pico Island - Azores
Santo António Named after the great Portuguese-born saint, the parish includes the small villages of Santana and São Vicente, with their cha...
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Madalena - Bandeiras - Santa Luzia - Pico Island - Art and History
Madalena The trading and communications centre of the island Its position facing Faial and the town of Horta has made it, since line initial...
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Impressive group of lavas next to the sea, perforated by many grottoes and tunnels. Volcanic arches over the sea. Rocks with curious shapes,... -
The genealogy of the Corte Real family dates from 1 367, beginning in the city of Tavira, in the Southern Province of Algarve. It is believ... -
Besides the meat and fish recipes that can be said to be "Azorean", since they can be found all over the archipelago, Flores also ...