Volcanoes Activity

Travel to The Azores is to go back to its origins, witness of the formation of the land across centuries of volcanic eruptions, which still in our days is active. Not uselessly its existence is the result of a process of 20 million years of volcanic activity, which initiate separating the plates of the terrestrial bark, create by successive eruptions a gigantic mountainous chain under the Atlantic Ocean.

Finally, the islands emerged in five million years, an igneous singular landscape that continues moulding the volcanic activity in the modern times.

This way, during 1957 and 1958, violent eruptions close numerous seismic jolts create the island of Faial. A new territory modelled itself to volcanic fire in the Punta dos Capelinos during those long days of Apocalypse. To walk along this desert of ashes offers the privilege of walking on one of the youngest lands of the planet, together with the mute witnesses of that natural fit. Forgotten on rough fields of ash, as well as an errant lighthouse that, curiously, turns out to be today relegated land.

Another devastating earthquake destroyed completely, in 1980, the city of tAngra do Heroismo in Terceira, which was reconstructed by such a determination that three years later UNESCO declared it World Patrimony.