Tag: 3 volcanic Azores destinations – sheer natural drama

The Azores were born of volcanic violence. The great spreading rift at the centre of the archipelago, the Terceira rift, is about 36 million years old and steadily moves south, 345 miles long and the planet’s slowest-moving plate. You can still see the scars of millennia of eruptions and quakes, making these islands more interesting […]