The beautiful Graciosa Island (“Gracious“), often called as “White Island”, is located on the central group of the wonderful Azores Archipelago, at 37km distance from the neighbour São Jorge Island, and occupying an area of about 62km2, with 12,5 km length and 8,5 km maximum width. This Island is the less geographically irregular in the archipelago, with amazing landscapes and a wonderful architectonic, human and natural heritage. The discovery dates of the Azores Archipelago are unknown, with several historical researches affirming that some of the island were already referred in Genovese maps since 1351, yet it was only from 1431 onwards that the colonization started in these Islands. Graciosa Island would have been discovered around 1450,...

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