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Travel TipsThe Azores bullfinch lives only in the laurel forest behind Nordeste. Priolo Centre hours, guided tours from €40 (2026) and what to do with a fallen shearwater.
Travel TipsThe Ferraria road reopened in May 2026 under traffic lights after the 2025 landslide, and the paid spa has closed for good. How to time the free hot sea pool with the tide, the PRC43SMI cinder-cone loop, the 1901 lighthouse, the Escalvado whaling lookout and the Mosteiros sunset.
Travel TipsCapelas lies 12 km north of Ponta Delgada: the Morro das Capelas volcano, the Poços sea pool and its 2026 season, a workshop museum, a coast walk and viewpoints.
Travel TipsSão Miguel in winter is mild but wet: highs of 17 to 20 °C, rain on 11 to 15 days a month. Hot pools, museums and whale boats stay open, some on shorter hours.
Travel TipsDive São Miguel from Ponta Delgada or Vila Franca: the Dori wreck, the Caloura caves, eleven sites, boat dives from €60 (2026), and the decompression chamber.
Travel TipsPlanning São Miguel with children: why Água d'Alto is the beach for toddlers, the children's rules at Poça da Dona Beija (ages 2 to 6 €10, under-2s free, swim nappies) and Terra Nostra (€14.50, 30 minutes in water up to 42 °C), Gruta do Carvão for a grey morning, whale watching from age 6 on zodiacs or younger on a catamaran, the child-seat rule for hire cars, and which walks to leave out with a pushchair. Prices checked October 2026.
In September, ECGs taken at the health centres of Nordeste, Povoação and Vila Franca do Campo saved patients 167 round trips to Ponta Delgada.
A lifeboat escorted the solo racer's undamaged yacht into the port of Horta, and an ambulance took him to hospital on Faial.
Fishing, aquaculture and fish-processing companies can claim back part of the higher fuel costs they carried since February. Applications close on 30 November.
How to vote by SMS, online or in your parish, the two-project rule that decides whether a ballot counts, and what is proposed for Sete Cidades, Mosteiros and Fajã de Baixo.
The warning covers Friday night, from 20:00 until 05:00 on Saturday, and is the lowest of the three IPMA levels.
The 10:45 Horta to Madalena crossing will run without vehicle space from Monday to Saturday while the Atlânticoline ferry is in a Spanish shipyard.
