Nearest Airport
: Ponta Delgada
at 22
Kilometres
Nearest Ferry
: Vila franca do Campo
at 1
Kilometres
Nearest Beach
: Vinha d'Areia //Praia Leopoldina//
at 10
Metres
Nearest Golf
: Furnas
at 10
Kilometres
Car: not necessary
If this tourist village, with its monuments, its beautiful gardens and streets drenched, all drawn towards the four cardinal points, where the sea lurks at every corner, with its natural beauty, its wide beaches and clean it becomes a center of tourist attraction for both domestic and foreign, who run the world to delight the spirit and looking for new reasons to scoop the lens of the camcorder that accompanies them on their tours. A visit to the islet gives a good reason to shoot their natural pool, the panoramic view that enjoys the highest elevations of any of its composing it, the different aspects that gives us at every turn, around the islet. To amateurs of sport fishing or underwater are offered a wide field of action in the deep waters of the islet and even on the boulder, fishing cane. Today is a nature reserve. Our coast is rich in fishing trolling, rod or line, and at sea, fishing for albacore and bonito. To catch up chernes line, matulas lilies gorazes, hake, bream, etc.., Etc. .. In Ribeira Beach's trout appreciable dimensions. The beaches of Vila Franca are large, clean and well defended. Saturdays and Sundays are populated by those who love the pleasures of a soothing bath in the sea or sun, accompanied by a good picnic. In this county there are two of the most beautiful lagoons of San Miguel. Lagoa do Fogo, yet rustic aspect, where you can admire one of the most splendid panoramas of the island, looking up from the top of Barrosa the sea on the north coast and south coast, in the narrowest and flattest of all of it. We still pond Conger, grim, reflecting a very dark green, which is transmitted by the rocks cliffs of the mountains that surround it, the contrast with the alacrity of a nearby lagoon of lilies, surface almost entirely covered by these formosíssimas flowers. It also offers, Vila Franca its visitors an interesting ethnographic museum in the House of the People, the Municipal Museum and the manufacture of earthenware, the process more primitive wheel. The potters of the village are unique in their art. Make the delights of who passes by here, the famous Queijadas Village that had their origin in the confectionery and Convent of Santo André are still manufactured in secret religiously maintained by only two families. The proportions archaeological carried out by Dr. Sousa Oliveira buried in some points of the Village in 1522 aroused much interest among scholars, who visited them, admiring the findings that may shed light on the value and importance of the old Capital