Monday, January 1, 2024

💙💙 Parish of Relva (Municipality of Ponta Delgada)

 


RELVA
(Parish of Ponta Delgada Municipality)
37.74699, -25.71324

Relva is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2021 was 2890, in an area of 12.07 square kilometers (4.66 sq mi). It contains the localities Nordela and Relva.

History
The area of Relva was pristine forest and unoccupied grasslands, virgin fields, where the first explorers discovered forests of laurel, common holly, Portuguese laurel, and Juniperus brevifolia, interspersed by local Vaccinium. The region, which extends to the border with Santa Clara and Feteiras, became a place where the pigs sent ashore by the first settlers congregated, and where many of the nobles of Vila Franca do Campo hunted. Traveling by boat to Santa Clara, these hunters would disembark and spend several days hunting for the semi-feral pigs, then return to the settlements with their prizes. Slowly, the region began to be occupied by the first families, houses, fields, and estates, developing Ponta Delgada, and encroaching on the unspoiled lands to the west.


Geography
Relva is situated on the southern coast of São Miguel, surrounded by Arrifes, Covoada and Capelas (in the north) and the Atlantic Ocean (along the south).

Culture
The actual parochial church celebrates a festival in honor of Our Lady of the Snows on the first Sunday of August.



























































































































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