III. LOCATION
São Miguel, Azores islands, Portugal
The Azores Islands are a Portuguese archipelago made up of nine islands located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Lush and enigmatic, they are endowed with extraordinary natural, cultural, and mythological richness. São Miguel is the largest island in the archipelago, where the modernity of Ponta Delgada coexists with rural life and the imposing force of wild nature. Craters transformed into lagoons of deep greens and blues, cliffs plunging into the Atlantic, dense forests with endemic flora and fauna, tea fields, mist-filled valleys, and thermal rivers, every corner of the island conveys a sense of mystery and beauty.