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Azores Islands (Ilhas Açores) of Portugal

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Azores

One of my big dreams is to go on vacation to Madeira, Portugal. Because my grandparents and my father are from Madeira. I have never traveled to my grandparents home town. I have heart of my parents that Madeira I like paradise. the foods are delisious, the Nature is incredible.
When i get there some day, I would also like to experience the Azores Island too. It's so beautiful that you won't wanna go back to you home town.

About the Azores Islands

The Azores islands consist of nine islands. They are divided into three groups. The eastern, the central and the western. In the eastern are the islands São Miguel and Santa Maria islands, in the central are Terceira, Graciosa, San Jorge, Pico and Faial islands. In the western are Flores and Corvo islands.

Here I will show you 5 places on these islands that are so amazing.

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Sao Miguel Island

The largest of all. In the capital, Ponta Delgada, the famous 18th century portals open up to a number of monuments that are worth visiting, most of them built between the 16th and the 18th century: Carlos Machado Museum and churches of Sao Sebastiao, Sao Pedro, Sao Jose, Colegio and Nossa Senhora da Conceicao, convent and chapel of Nossa Senhora da Esperanca and Santa Ana Chapel. Palaces: Fonte Bela and Santa Ana; Conceicao and Santa Catarina; Casa de Carlos Bicudo and the Pacos do Concelho. Other places to visit: Caldeira das Sete Cidades (green and blue lakes), Lagoa do Fogo, Ribeira Grande, Vale das Furnas (spas and hot mineral pools), and Vila Franca do Campo. read more

Faial Island

In Horta, a famous yacht harbor, look at the beautiful tiles and gilded carvings in the 17th and 18th century churches of Sao Salvador, Nossa Senhora do Carmo and Sao Francisco. To visit: Sacred Art Museum, Nossa Senhora das Angústias Church, Nossa Senhora do Pilar Chapel, Imperio dos Nobres and Porto Pim fortifications, Caldeira Natural Reserve, Capelinhos, grottoes and caves in Costa da Feteira and Monte da Guia belvedere. read more

Pico Island

Pico owes its name to a 7713 ft high volcanic cone. Special reference to Sao Roque do Pico, with its 18th century churches of Sao Roque and Sao Pedro de Alcântara, Lajes do Pico with its Whale Museum, Madalena with its Wine Museum and 17th-century church, and Areia Larga with its beautiful winery manor houses. Other places: Calheta de Nesquim, Candelaria, Criacao Velha, Piedade (forest preserve), Prainha do Norte, Santa Luzia, Santo Amaro, Sao Caetano, Sao Joao and Sao Mateus. read more

Lagoa das Sete Cidades-São Miguel, nicknamed "The green island", Portugal.
Sources: Açores portugal portal, Wikipedia

Lagoa do Santiago-São Miguel, Portugal.
Source: dailymail website, Açores portugal portal

Three awsome cities in Madeira

World's Leading Island Destination 2019.
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Europe's Leading Island Destination 2019
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About this route map

Additional information about this map.
Every day I go to work I ask my self, why not to track my route from home to work? just for the fun and check how is the data formatted. Well, lets start the gps fun.

I have use my mobile phone and OsmAnd android app to get the gps data.
The gps data is then downloaded to my laptop.
I used the geojson.io to convert this gps data into geojson format.
I notice that the data is separated into 2 linestring, because When I was logging the track, I stopped the gps for logging when I stopped the car.
Then I choosed three coordinates from the geojson and add 3 more point feature to the data with extra content.
Change the geojson file extention to .js. download data

Map authored by me, Joël Gonçalves de Freitas