Twin Lakes Small Group Tour

The Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal, are an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic. The islands are characterized by dramatic landscapes, fishing villages, green pastures and hedgerows of blue hydrangeas. São Miguel, the largest, has lake-filled calderas and the Gorreana Tea Plantation. Pico is home to the 2,351m Mt. Pico and vineyards sheltered by boulders.

Mosteiros is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the Portuguese island of São Miguel in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,123, in an area of 8.95 square kilometres. It contains the localities Chã das Machadas, Lomba dos Homens, Lombinha and Mosteiros.

Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel Island, is the capital of the Azores archipelago of Portugal. The striking, 3-arched city gates and the Gothic-style Church of St. Sebastian are near the harbor. The Convent and Chapel of Our Lady of Hope houses a revered image of Christ. The Carlos Machado Museum offers diverse artifacts of Azorean culture. The city is a gateway to the crater lakes of Sete Cidades, to the northwest. Ponta Delgada began as a simple fishing village whose fishermen were once attracted by its safe coves but soon began to play the role of the main port of São Miguel Island. The city grew and in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the churches and manor houses flourished and still today they integrate the historic center.