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Clouds roll over the hills around Sete Cidades, as seen from the Miradouro da Boca do Inferno on Sao Miguel island, the Azores.
Hiking at Sete Cidades; Sete Cidades is the active volcano that sits on the western part of the island. There are a number of hikes around the caldera and to various viewpoints.
The western yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws.
This species breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia. It is resident in the milder parts of its range, such as western Europe, but northern and eastern populations migrate to Africa and south Asia.
It is a slender 15–16 cm long bird, with the characteristic long, constantly wagging tail of its genus. It is the shortest tailed of the European wagtails. The breeding adult male is basically olive above and yellow below.
This insectivorous bird inhabits open country near water, such as wet meadows.
The Igreja de Sao Nicolau (1857) is the parish church of the village of Sete Cidades on Sao Miguel Island, Azores.
Lagoa Santiago, Freguesia e Lagoa das Sete Cidades
Ilha de São Miguel
Açores
Santiago and Sete Cidades Lagoons
and Sete Cidades Village
São Miguel Island
Azores
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The bridge across Lagoa das Sete Cidades and the village of the same name as seen from the Miradouro do Cerrado das Freiras on Sao Miguel Island, Azores.
View of one of the lakes of Sete Cidades which is a collapsed volcano which blew its top off in San Miguel, Azores.
Hiking at Sete Cidades; Sete Cidades is the active volcano that sits on the western part of the island. There are a number of hikes around the caldera and to various viewpoints.
After years of looting and vandalism since the Monte Palace Hotel was totally abandoned in 2010, the property has been stripped to its concrete skeleton, providing a fascinating, and quite dangerous, 507000 square-meter crumbling complex for people to explore.
Sete Cidades is an active volcano that sits on the western part of the island. There are a number of hikes around the caldera and to various viewpoints.
This must be the alpha duck male? Look how the ladies look at him! :)
This photo was taken in a volcano crater, Sete Cidades, Azores, Portugal.
Le village de sete cidades et ses deux lacs tôt le matin. Je suis resté un long moment sur ce point de vue à attendre que les rayons de soleil passent par dessus la crête des montagnes, passant le temps à discuter avec un touriste Brésilien, contemplatif comme moi!
Day 6; Azores. Looking down on the twin lake of Lagoa das Sete Cidades.
The lake is situated within the caldera of the Sete Cidades Massif, an ancient volcano built on various layers of ash, pyroclasts and trachyte and basaltic lavas. It is a stratovolcano constructed from alternating phases of explosive and effusive ejecta.
Brazil - Piauí - Seven Cities National Park - Turtle Stone / Brasil - Piauí - Parque Nacional Sete Cidades - Pedra da Tartaruga
São Miguel Island has been nicknamed "The Green Island". It is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The island covers 759 km2 (293 sq mi) and has around 140,000 inhabitants, with 45,000 of these people resident in the largest city in the archipelago: Ponta Delgada.
In 1427, São Miguel became the second of the islands discovered by Gonçalo Velho Cabral to be settled by colonists from continental Portugal. This date is uncertain, as it is believed that the island was discovered between 1426 and 1437 and inscribed in portolans from the middle of the 14th century.
Owing to the predominance of volcanic cones and craters in the interior, human settlement has developed primarily along coastal and interior plains. In addition, there are several communities that have developed within ancient craters (such as Sete Cidades, Furnas or Povoação, river-valleys (such as Ribeira Chã, Pilar da Bretanha) or coastal deltas (Mosteiros). Regardless, these settlements were largely agrarian and concentrated around the parish churches and the many fertile parcels of land. The communities were largely isolated throughout the year, owing to the great distances and rough landscape of the island, and only became integrated with the development of the many road networks that circle and bisect the island. Two cities have developed, largely because the island was divided by mountainous volcanic cones in the interior: Ponta Delgada and Ribeira Grande.
(Wikipedia)
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Sete Cidades is a civil parish in the center of the municipality of Ponta Delgada, that is likewise located in the center of a massive volcanic crater three miles across, also referred to as Sete Cidades.
I traveled several times to this famous and wonderful place, often to find completely different weather and light conditions - this shot was taken early in the morning when light broke through cloudy sky for a few seconds...
One of the winding spiral staircases that lead to the 88 rooms of the Monte Palace hotel near Sete Cidades in Sao Miguel Azores. The hotel has been abandoned for several years already, after the project that was conceived in 1977 fell through. The hotel was closed in 1989 after just 19 months of operation, due to the low occupancy and the huge debt amassed. It stood unused for ~20 years until 2010, when funds for security run dry and the complex was left at the hands of looters and vandals.
Panorama of the Lagoa das Sete Cidades, showing the Green Lake (left) and the Blue Lake (right) divided by a bridge.
Lagoa das Sete Cidades ("Lagoon of the Seven Cities") is a twin-lake situated in the crater of a massive volcano on the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It consists of two ecologically-different small-lakes connected by a narrow passage (and crossed by a bridge), located inside a dormant volcano on the western third of the island of São Miguel. The Lagoa das Sete Cidades part of a natural landscape of communitarian interest: it is the largest body of water in the region and one of the most important freshwater resources in the archipelago.