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17 walks in Portugal - Angra do Heroísmo, Madalena, Ribeira Grande, Calheta, Capelo, Furnas, Horta, Lajes do Pico, Nordeste, Ponta Delgada, Praia da Vitória, Santa Cruz da Graciosa, Sete Cidades, Velas. Each one comes with a map, stories, and questions you answer from what is around you.

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🌋 Azores: volcanoes, legends and historyIslands that grew on the seam of three continents, the legend of Atlantis, a horseman pointing west, cows that defeated a Spanish army, and a volcano that sent half an island to America – the Azores in a five-minute read.

Angra do Heroísmo

Madalena

Ribeira Grande

Calheta

Azores: on foot to Caldeira de Santo CristoA descent from the ridge of the island to a fajã with no road, a lagoon holding the only clams harvested in the Azores, waves that draw surfers from abroad, and a chapel paid for by a local who had gone to California.10 km · 360 min

Capelo

Azores: Caldeira and CapelinhosA crater two kilometres wide, a lighthouse buried in volcanic ash, a piece of Faial that only rose from the sea in 1957 and 1958, and a whaling harbour that the eruption emptied.3 km · 300 min

Furnas

Azores: Furnas – a village on a volcanoA village where water from one spring is sour and from another it boils, a lake on whose shore lunch cooks in the ground all day, and a chapel a man built both as a vow and as his own tomb.5 km · 300 min

Horta

Azores: Horta, the sailors' harbourA building the town put up in gratitude after a volcano erupted, a pier painted by yacht crews from all over the world, a bar that handled the mail for passing ships, and a whaling factory that only closed in the 1970s.2.5 km · 180 min

Lajes do Pico

Azores: the whalers of PicoBoat houses from which whalers put to sea with hand harpoons into the 1980s, a lake high in the middle of the island, and a factory that turned sperm whales into oil and meal.1 km · 240 min

Nordeste

Azores: from Nordeste to Vila Franca do CampoA region called the tenth island, the first lighthouse in the Azores, a village nicknamed the nativity crib, the place where the first settlers came ashore, and a town buried by a mountain in a single October night.8 km · 480 min

Ponta Delgada

Azores: Ponta DelgadaA city gate that was moved thirty metres, a church built in thanks for the end of a plague, a statue that emigrants travel from all over the world to see, a fortress against pirates, and pineapples that flower on command.3 km · 180 min

Praia da Vitória

Azores: Serra do Cume, Praia da Vitória and BiscoitosA viewpoint over a landscape cut into thousands of little pieces, a town named after a battle it won, and sea pools in black lava beside vineyards parcelled into tiny plots.55 km · 300 min

Santa Cruz da Graciosa

Azores: Graciosa, the White IslandThe smallest inhabited island of the central Azores: a town that saved every drop of rain for centuries, a fortified chapel on a volcanic cone, windmills by the sea, a huge cavity under a crater floor and hot springs at the shore.25 km · 300 min

Sete Cidades

Azores: Sete CidadesTwo lakes that legend says were made from the tears of a princess and a shepherd, a hotel that stayed open for a year and a half, a village in a crater that had to dig a way for its water through a mountain, and rocks in the sea that reminded the settlers of a monastery.4 km · 300 min

Velas

Azores: Velas, cheese and the northern fajãsA gate that closed the harbour for the night, a bell tower the lava spared, a natural pool under the cliffs of the north coast, and a cheese that has been made on the island since the 15th century.50 km · 300 min