Terceira Island Adventure

7 days/6 nights at Quinta do Martelo in Terceira Island, Azores

About the Trip

Enjoy this all inclusive trip from Boston Logan International Airport to Terceira Island, Azores. Your adventure in one of the Azores’ nine islands will be hosted by Quinta do Martelo where you will experience the nature of a volcanic island in the Atlantic. The history, culture and gastronomy of the Azorean people will surely make your vacation memorable. Activities include horse buggy riding, whale watching, hiking, visits to volcanic caves, visit to Angra do Heroismo World Heritage City, mountain biking and participating in cultural events.

Includes: all inclusive for 2 people, including airfare to Terceira Island, Azores from Boston Logan International

Awards:

- Gift to the Earth, the World Wildlife Fund for establishing the first Protected Marine Areas in deep waters of the North Atlantic

- Azorean Agricultural Show, 1st Place 2004 for Best Biological Product

Certifications:

- Graciosa Island, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

- Corvo Island, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

- Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture, UNESCO World Heritage

- Central Zone of Town of Angra do Heroismo, Terceira Island, UNESCO World Heritage

- Hammers Farm (orchards and gardens), classified biological agriculture by ECOCERT Portugal.

- Hammers Farm, classified a Green Key facility by the Foundation for Environmental Education

- National Gastronomical Heritage Awards, 2002 classified in 1st Place

About Quinta do Martelo

Hammer’s Farm a name deriving from an 18th century door knocker that still embellishes its main gate is an estate located 3 miles away from the UNESCO recognised world heritage city of Angra do Heroísmo. This farm’s activity reached its zenith when the orange fruit trade in the Azores was a very prosperous activity. It was here that these citrines were produced, packed and exported to Europe , labelled as Japanese fruit.

Later on, after the decline of that economic period in the Azores , wine presses were installed in the Farm for the wine and loquat brandy production, a type of fruit that nowadays still abounds in the 56 square miles that makes up the estate, alongside with many orange trees and other types of fruit trees.

Through an extensive work of investigation and the study of several vestiges found, we were able to reconstruct and maintain certain regional aspects such as: workshops, traditional dying out crafts, and houses dating back to the beginning of the Azores settlement. We were also able to recover and adapt certain Farm areas to biological agriculture, and preserve autochthonous species of domestic animals for use in the various features of the Farm.

Hammer’s Farm is regarded as a “Tourist Utility” by the Azorean Regional Government. Here, we intend to recreate a genuine Terceira ’s rural ambiance, starting with the buildings and ornaments, on to the gastronomy and ending with the clothing, tradition and festivities. Here, we offer our visitors the true feeling of what life was like five centuries ago in a traditional rural farm such as Hammer’s Farm.

As a result of the amount of details observed, research needed and extension of the occupied areas involving Hammer’s Farm, this is a constantly evolving project – it will not be easy to exhaustively describe this whole complex in a simple “site”.

Therefore we are happy just to give an overall idea of the Farm, letting the visitor explore the magic of discovering a whole new reality by him/herself.

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