Far in time, Corvo Island was a haven for Atlantic pirates who preferred it to plunder and enslave its inhabitants. In 1632, faced with a new threat of invasion and with a will inspired by courage and faith, the people decided to resist with their rudimentary agricultural tools and with a secret weapon offered by…

Many years ago, a boy with a kind and dreamy heart lived on Flores Island. As usual at that time, the boy had the daily task of carrying water from a spring to his house. One day, while carrying two jugs of water home, he found a puddle formed by the rain. He stopped there…

In far gone times, on a hill above a beautiful beach, lived a young woman with bright eyes, whose liveliness had been robbed by an illness that prevented her from walking. As they saw her, every day, sitting on the top of the hill, people called the place: “O pico da Coxa”. Despite suffering from…

Once upon a time, a shepherd came down from the high cliffs of the island of São Jorge to leave his cattle to graze in one of the most beautiful Fajãs in the Azores. While the cattle grazed, the man took the opportunity to rest a little by the saltwater lake, when he noticed a…

The “faia-das-ilhas”, the flower that gave Faial its name, was the only company of the first settler of the island, a hermit from the kingdom of Portugal. On a summer day, and already tired of a long isolation, he received with joy some visitors from the island of Terceira. When they left, the old man…

A long time ago, at the beginning of Santa Maria Island’s settlement, a young fisherman cheated his isolation with walks by the sea, on full moon nights. On one of those nights, the fisherman heard the soft melody people attributed to mermaids, magical beings that, as rumor had it, seduced men and took them to…