Culture of Azores
“The geography for us means the same thing as history,” wrote Nemésio Vitorino, a famous author of Azoreans. Even if it is the same for the arts?
The Museu dos Baleeiros (Pico)
The history of whaling in the archipelago is exposed with boats at Museu dos Baleeiros at Lajes do Pico. You’ll find whaling and all the equipment needed to hunt and a beautiful collection of scrimshaws, carved teeth cetacean motifs.
The paintings of the port of Horta (Faial)
A Faial, wharves, piers, promenades, walls of the marina of Horta were covered paints figurative and abstract setting images of sailors worldwide who have made stopovers on the island: an art gallery in full air.
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