If you're passing have a look but don't go out of your way to see what I thought was a far from welcoming statue.

This is a monument to pay homage to the immigrants who left Sao Miguel to seek a better life somewhere else. It is only significant to those of us who have had relatives who left. Between 1878 and 1913, some 20,000 Azorean immigrants left Ponta...More

Just a nice statue near the water front in Ponta Delgada. You can take photo of it. Or, you can take a photo of you with the statue.

I wish that I could find out a bit more about the background to this monument - maybe that is the point to question. i wonder if it was linked to the Spanish civil war ? As statues / monuments go this is modern, well...More

This statue set is in the very nice plaza that is right by the cruise ship harbor. Many of the emigrants went to the USA, Massachusetts being a favorite place.

Not all that interesting or pleasing, this is street sculpture on the major road along the port. In a traffic circle.

This is almost a round about on the road. As you walk through the lower section of the town (to the left when facing the town coming out of the port). The tour guide we had explain the meaning and that the town's people are...More