Mosteiro (Lajes das Flores)
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Mosteiro is the smallest civil parish in the municipality of Lajes das Flores on the Portuguese island of Flores, in the archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2021 was 19, in an area of 5.99 sq
A view of the Rocha dos Bordões one of the emblematic geological features of the island
The parochial Church of the Santissima Trinidade in the centre of the parish
São Miguel Island
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São Miguel Island, nicknamed "The Green Island", is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The island covers 760 km2 and has around 140,000 inhabitants, with
Mosteiro (Lajes das Flores)
…sq mi). Its toponymy has been debated by historians, although some theories suggest that it was named for the comparable civil parish on the island of São Miguel. The first colonists, motivated to settle here by a man named João Soares, were settlers from the region of Mosteiros, renaming this zone in its honour…
The landing of the Spanish Tercios at Terceira during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580
An 1845 engraving of the island of São Miguel (west is up)
Lagoa do Fogo (English: Lake of Fire), as seen from Miradouro da Serra da Barrosa, along the Água de Pau Massif
Lagoa das Furnas