including the Azores and Madeira. The stopover can be used on either leg of return trips and on one-way journeys. The flag carrier of Portugal is highlighting its stopover program with a promotion ...

Serving the autonomous region of Madeira, Portugal ... the island directly to the United States: The flag carrier for the Azores, another Portuguese archipelago some 600 miles to the southeast ...

LISBON - Around 250 ships loaded with treasure lie wrecked in the waters of the Azores and Madeira archipelagos and on the Portuguese mainland coast, according to underwater archaeologist ...

British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution ... Funchal pier with a large white flag flapping from its flagstaff.

In 1419, when Portuguese ... Madeira. Columbus briefly lived on the island. Captain Cook paused for supplies, sailed on to Rio de Janeiro and Tierra del Fuego, and wound up planting a British flag ...

The Azores are an archipelago in the middle of ... Situated over 1,000 kilometres away from the mainland, these Portuguese owned islands are surprisingly easy for European tourists to get to.