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Ponta Delgada |
A City to the future |
Ponta Delgada was raised to city by charter, in April 2, 1546, in the reign of King John III, and the second city being set up throughout the archipelago of the Azores.
Located on the largest island in the archipelago (the island of San Miguel), the city initially was a village of fishermen, but since early grows bypassing the former Vila Franca do Campo, who was in four hundred, the biggest and most important city Azores, but sadly undermined by a major cataclysm in 1522.
Ponta Delgada grew, it became town and later city. The city grows to an overwhelming force, concealing its old line of coast, which housed the old pier boarding, many strengths and fortins, the municipal landfill, the old customs, among others ...
With more than 5 centuries of existence, Ponta Delgada is today a reference in natural landscape in the region, and with a population of about 46,102 people. As the largest county that meets the highest diversity of equipment, its line of coast will be extended again with the construction of the project "Doors of the Sea", composed of numerous underground parks, casinos, new shopping centres, amphitheatres, cinemas and diverse places to Fun Night, created by the architect Manuel Salgado. |
