For hundreds of years, São Miguel served as a stop for these explorers and sailors to refuel and collect supplies; now, the island appears much more cosmopolitan, home to boutique hotels and thriving ...

Far out in the North Atlantic stretches a rain-swept chain of volcanic islands, the Azores, a distant province of Portugal. On a day shaped by washes of cloud and sun, Inês Pereira Rodrigues of Lisbon ...

You could call New England and Portugal cousins, thanks to more than a century of migration here from the Atlantic nation. Though visit São Miguel, the largest of the nine islands that make up the ...

Far out in the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of volcanic islands — a province of Portugal. We escape tor a mountain trek among the dairy cows and waterfalls of Sao Miguel island in the Azores. Far out in ...

SAO MIGUEL ISLAND, Azores -- It’s called the Hawaii of Europe. And for most Americans, it’s a lot closer than Hawaii. The Azores is an autonomous region of Portugal made up of nine islands in the ...

Walk&Talk, launched in 2011 as a celebration of street art, this year hosts an abundance of works by more than 80 artists in nine venues around the island of São Miguel ...

Dedication -- Volcanic geology of São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago): introduction / J. Gaspar, J.E. Guest, A. Duncan, D. Chester & F. Barriga -- Geological setting. The structure of the azores ...