Hugo Carriço
Biscoitos Beach in Biscoitos Village
The Biscoitos belongs to the municipality of Praia da Vitória on Terceira Island, Azores.
History
The name of this town is also the name given in the Azores two different entities, one of which refers to a sweet paste made with traditional spices, and the other to scorched earth, born of volcanoes, basalt (black).
In this case Cookies are land formed by lava from volcanic eruptions. This is an important area of wine tradition precisely because the scorched earth to be poor and little more than give vine still needs to be protected from the weather by curraletas made with the very cornerstone. (the struggle of men with the elements).
Verdelho wine produced here is of excellent quality and great tradition. It was used on ships in the time of discovery it was a product that has held up well in the sea.
The time that began the cultivation of vines in the cookies is unknown. It is however to be assumed which began with the cultivation of wheat and other products essential to the livelihood of villagers newly arrived in a land still a virgin. The strain of the variety of grape Verdelho appears to be the oldest. In times past was such an abundance of wine that in 1649 in the parish of biscuits arrived to exchange a barrel of wine for five mackerel and a penny. Because of the Phylloxera that strongly attacked the culture of the vine, it came in strong and declined only recovered again by 1870 with the introduction of new varieties resistant to disease and which have been grafted again.
Having been elevated to a parish in 1556, has two churches and several chapels. The town has a wine museum, founded in 1990 by Brum family of Francisco de Brum, where you can see a wide range of instruments related to vintage photographs and historical documents also for the wine and the vintage. It is in this museum and home that is installed on the seat of the Confraternity of the Verdelho Wine Biscuits, created in 1993. Were wastelands that Francisco Maria Brum converted into sources of wealth thanks to the successful journey of revitalization and expansion wine. The first leg of the new grapes planted, there are already more than nine decades, there is still time destroyed the second leg of the place was called the Canada Salga.
However the remaining land not affected by lava flows are of great fertility given their origin in volcanic ash and plenty of water.
This is one of the most important parishes of the Island. It is also due to its microclimate a great vacation spot. This is similar to microlima fajã that makes it unique in Terceira can catch up in certain respects with the cliffs of the island of Sao Jorge. Next to the sea there are natural pools, located between rock formations with provenance in volcanic eruptions, some already in historical times. The best known originated from the volcano that gave birth to what is now the Algar Coal within the Island.
Along the seafront of the town there is a strong military and trenches dating from the XVI century XVII century as a result of the defensive system of Terceira against the frequent assaults of pirates that was subject.
There is no documentation indicating precisely an exact date for the founding of this village, but by popular tradition known to be one of the oldest on the island and became a parish as early as June 1556 after the death of Pedro Enes's Corner.
It was in the past it belonged to two noble families: The Songs and Pamplona, the latter being of Spanish origin who came to Portugal fugitive at the time of colonization of this island.
At the time of the Canto Pero Enes Cookies were the seat of a first-born son and they called it Fat Cookies by its land is fertile or Materramenta because this man was a nickname the first possessor of it.
Father Jose Alves da Silva, said that unlike almost all the villages of Terceira Island, only had biscuits 3 miles long between its neighboring towns, being however understood that this was even smaller extent around 1556, as the distance of about 500 meters from the Ribeira de Pamplona to the place known by Marco Cruz belonged to the Town's altars.
In the year 1673 the Bishop of Angra D. Friar Laurence de Castro ordered the inhabitants of the town of altars that they lived beyond the Ribeira de Pamplona stayed as residents of biscuits. You can also accomplish this small neighborhood on the ground that once was their whole population crowded to the south The old church was the 1500 meters south of the current St. Peter's Church on a site originally called "the chapel '.
On 22 November in the year 1761, began a series of large earthquakes that continued, with some frequency by 14 April in the year 1762. On the 17th of that month and year of the morning has begun a volcanic eruption with lava to emerge from under the ground and being thrown to the site known as Old Mystery. With this wash Biscoitos found himself in danger of being entirely destroyed.
On April 21, in place of the Old Mystery of a new eruption happened distancing himself this about a league from the previous. This second eruption lasted eight days. It began with an explosion of great force that is heard in many miles around and lifted in the air very large stone.
With the beginning of these events began the exodus of people fleeing as fast as I could leaving the village deserted. All left their homes, taking what they could. The priests moved the Blessed Sacrament to the Church of Santa Beatriz of Four Streams. No one died because everyone had time to put safe. In the early days the springs and fountains of those sites had a burning like the pepper.
Centuries later, on January 1, 1980 has again another event, this time an earthquake measuring the degree seven on the Richter scale. Four people died and many were homeless, they had to take shelter in cars, tents and homes of relatives
Biscoitos Beach in Biscoitos Village
The Biscoitos belongs to the municipality of Praia da Vitória on Terceira Island, Azores.
History
The name of this town is also the name given in the Azores two different entities, one of which refers to a sweet paste made with traditional spices, and the other to scorched earth, born of volcanoes, basalt (black).
In this case Cookies are land formed by lava from volcanic eruptions. This is an important area of wine tradition precisely because the scorched earth to be poor and little more than give vine still needs to be protected from the weather by curraletas made with the very cornerstone. (the struggle of men with the elements).
Verdelho wine produced here is of excellent quality and great tradition. It was used on ships in the time of discovery it was a product that has held up well in the sea.
The time that began the cultivation of vines in the cookies is unknown. It is however to be assumed which began with the cultivation of wheat and other products essential to the livelihood of villagers newly arrived in a land still a virgin. The strain of the variety of grape Verdelho appears to be the oldest. In times past was such an abundance of wine that in 1649 in the parish of biscuits arrived to exchange a barrel of wine for five mackerel and a penny. Because of the Phylloxera that strongly attacked the culture of the vine, it came in strong and declined only recovered again by 1870 with the introduction of new varieties resistant to disease and which have been grafted again.
Having been elevated to a parish in 1556, has two churches and several chapels. The town has a wine museum, founded in 1990 by Brum family of Francisco de Brum, where you can see a wide range of instruments related to vintage photographs and historical documents also for the wine and the vintage. It is in this museum and home that is installed on the seat of the Confraternity of the Verdelho Wine Biscuits, created in 1993. Were wastelands that Francisco Maria Brum converted into sources of wealth thanks to the successful journey of revitalization and expansion wine. The first leg of the new grapes planted, there are already more than nine decades, there is still time destroyed the second leg of the place was called the Canada Salga.
However the remaining land not affected by lava flows are of great fertility given their origin in volcanic ash and plenty of water.
This is one of the most important parishes of the Island. It is also due to its microclimate a great vacation spot. This is similar to microlima fajã that makes it unique in Terceira can catch up in certain respects with the cliffs of the island of Sao Jorge. Next to the sea there are natural pools, located between rock formations with provenance in volcanic eruptions, some already in historical times. The best known originated from the volcano that gave birth to what is now the Algar Coal within the Island.
Along the seafront of the town there is a strong military and trenches dating from the XVI century XVII century as a result of the defensive system of Terceira against the frequent assaults of pirates that was subject.
There is no documentation indicating precisely an exact date for the founding of this village, but by popular tradition known to be one of the oldest on the island and became a parish as early as June 1556 after the death of Pedro Enes's Corner.
It was in the past it belonged to two noble families: The Songs and Pamplona, the latter being of Spanish origin who came to Portugal fugitive at the time of colonization of this island.
At the time of the Canto Pero Enes Cookies were the seat of a first-born son and they called it Fat Cookies by its land is fertile or Materramenta because this man was a nickname the first possessor of it.
Father Jose Alves da Silva, said that unlike almost all the villages of Terceira Island, only had biscuits 3 miles long between its neighboring towns, being however understood that this was even smaller extent around 1556, as the distance of about 500 meters from the Ribeira de Pamplona to the place known by Marco Cruz belonged to the Town's altars.
In the year 1673 the Bishop of Angra D. Friar Laurence de Castro ordered the inhabitants of the town of altars that they lived beyond the Ribeira de Pamplona stayed as residents of biscuits. You can also accomplish this small neighborhood on the ground that once was their whole population crowded to the south The old church was the 1500 meters south of the current St. Peter's Church on a site originally called "the chapel '.
On 22 November in the year 1761, began a series of large earthquakes that continued, with some frequency by 14 April in the year 1762. On the 17th of that month and year of the morning has begun a volcanic eruption with lava to emerge from under the ground and being thrown to the site known as Old Mystery. With this wash Biscoitos found himself in danger of being entirely destroyed.
On April 21, in place of the Old Mystery of a new eruption happened distancing himself this about a league from the previous. This second eruption lasted eight days. It began with an explosion of great force that is heard in many miles around and lifted in the air very large stone.
With the beginning of these events began the exodus of people fleeing as fast as I could leaving the village deserted. All left their homes, taking what they could. The priests moved the Blessed Sacrament to the Church of Santa Beatriz of Four Streams. No one died because everyone had time to put safe. In the early days the springs and fountains of those sites had a burning like the pepper.
Centuries later, on January 1, 1980 has again another event, this time an earthquake measuring the degree seven on the Richter scale. Four people died and many were homeless, they had to take shelter in cars, tents and homes of relatives