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 <want2beuni...@yahoo.com> 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
