Hi Bill, There is the "festival ilha branca" (white island festival) from August 10 to August 13 2014.
>From July 24 to August 6th there is the Parochial annual festas of Nossa Senhora da Luz and of Guadalupe. Here's a link, it's in portuguese but scroll down for the photos which will give you a better idea. http://www.christusvincit.pt.vu/ Margaret Vicente On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Bill Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for a bit off-topic post, but I am planning a trip to the Azores and > could use some advice. > > We've spoken to a couple different travel agents and are getting > inconsistent messages on the dates of festas on the islands. Being from > Graciosa, we want to spend a good amount of time there. A festa on > Graciosa would be ideal. As I have school age children, we are planning > for the summer in either late June or July. The head back to school in > early August so staying into August is unlikely. One travel agent is > saying that the Espirito Santa is July 11-12-13 on Sao Miguel. However, > when I research on the web, I can't find any reference to the Espirito > Santa being on Sao Miguel. A cousin told my mother that there is a > Graciosa Fest on July 26-27th, but again, I can't find anything referencing > anything on Graciosa during that time period. What I see on the web is > Espirito Santa happening seven weeks after Easter. Nothing is correlating > with these dates. > > We are looking to fly from California (Bay Area, most likely) and go to > either Terceira or Sao Miguel. From there we would fly to Graciosa > (depending on the timing of travel/festa, we would stay on the first island > for some time and then go to Graciosa or jump immediately to Graciosa and > spend some time on the arrival island before heading back to the States.) > > Specific questions: > * What are specific dates of Festas in late June or all of July on > Graciosa, Sao Miguel or Terceira? > * If you were going to spend time on either island (Sao Miguel or > Terceira), which would you recommend? > > Thank you! > > Bill > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- Margaret M Vicente -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
