One of the most important works of European medieval cartography is the Catalan Atlas from 1375. It states an archipelago far out in the Atlantic, which apparently was known to sailors prior to the edition of any map of that region, but which wasn't officially discovered until the 20's or 30's of the 15th century. Back in that time, the discovery of some new spot basically meant to take possession of it, and regardless of who might have been the real discoverer, he planted a Portuguese flag on the different islands of said archipelago.
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| Lagoa do Congro |
Nowadays, the islands I'm talking about are known as the Azores and there are nine of them. From the biggest to the smallest, their names are Sao Miguel, Pico, Terceira, Sao Jorge, Faial, Flores, Santa Maria, Graciosa and Corvo, and it's precisely Sao Miguel where Elisabet and me spent a week last month. Summer vacations we call it.
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| Hydrangea |
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