>From my research, the major feast of the Espirito Santo are all on Pentecost >throughout the Islands, and the one in Ponta Delgada is then, but the bigger >feast of Santo Christo is two weeks before that. However, as someone noted, >many of the smaller villages stagger their feasts so they don't compete with >one another and people can go from one to another throughout the spring and >early summer.
Besides the big feast in Ponta Delgada, the one that is frequently referenced is the one in Terceira because the Imperio is so intricate and beautiful. Here is a link that may help you, and if you can call a travel agent in Fall River or New Bedford that has a Portuguese sounding surname, I am willing to bet they will be able to give you dates and information and help you plan your itinerary for the land part of your trip. My wife and I went to Sao Miguel six years ago and used a Portuguese travel agent who was fabulous because she used to go there with tours twice a year--unfortunately, she has retired and her son who was to take over the business died from a heart attack, so I no longer have the connection. Seriously though, find a travel agency in either of those primarily Azorean communities and they will be able to help you. Fall River has Holy Ghost feasts almost every weekend in the spring and summer and then they do a big one which is billed as the Great New England Holy Ghost Festa the weekend before Labor Day. Here is a very helpful link https://www.google.com/search?q=emperio+d+espirito+santo&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS527US527&oq=emperio+d+espirito+santo&aqs=chrome..69i57.18770j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 BTW, I live in Stonington, CT and we have a large feast of our own. When the founders were establishing it back about a hundred years ago, they decided to be very pragmatic and since there was already a celebration on Pentecost here, and one in New London, they went to the other extreme and chose Labor Day weekend as their feast day. this link takes you to our facebook page and there are pictures you may want to share with your family. https://www.facebook.com/groups/263590073662044/ when you find out more, please share it with me since I want to go to one of these festivals in the "old country" before I die, so anything you can tell me would be helpful. Fred Souza On Jan 25, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Bill Boyd 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. Thank you, Frederick Souza 19 Owen Drive Stonington, CT 06378-1012 860-535-2670 mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
