Vila do Porto

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significance on Santa Maria Island

  • In Santa Maria Island

    The island’s capital, Vila do Porto, founded in the 1430s, is the oldest town in the Azores; it has a 15th-century parish church and a commemorative stela, dedicated in 1432 to “the discoverers.” Christopher Columbus, returning from his first voyage to America in 1493, called at what is…

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