Paul’s Peak Lookout is a Portuguese gazebo located in Feteiras, municipality of Ponta Delgada, Azores island of Sao Miguel. This viewpoint located at high altitude offers a huge view that is lost in the distance. The view extends to the north and south coasts and inland mountains. Close this viewpoint is the Empadadas Lagoon and […]
Mount Pico (Portuguese: Montanha do Pico) is a stratovolcano and the highest mountain of Portugal, located on the island of Pico, in the mid-Atlantic archipelago of the Azores. It is situated at 2,351 metres (7,713 ft) above sea level, it is one of the highest Atlantic mountains; it is more than twice the elevation of any other peak in the Azores. Historical eruptions of Pico […]
The Santa Luzia Mysteries are a locality of Santa Lucia Parish, Municipality of São Roque do Pico, Pico Island, Azores. The origin of this place were two volcanic eruptions, one occurred in the sixteenth century and another in the early seventeenth century, more precisely in 1718. The last eruption took great violence, and carried the […]
The Dog Arches are presented as a set of rock formations of volcanic origin located site Dog, parish of flags, Madalena municipality of Pico, Pico island. These formations are composed of volcanic caves and lava tubes which together give rise to an appreciable mass of solidified lava clippings. These formations extend the sea causing the […]
