Declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO, the city of Angra do Heroísmo, in Isla Terceira of Azores, constitutes one of the overseas large cities more recoletas of lusitanas earth.
This city to snatched to Praia the capitalidad and has become the city more populated with Isla Terceira. Sea of Azores that formerly denominated Island of Jesus Christ, took the present denomination from the ordinal number in which it was discovered. Here, in totally steep land, where still extinguished volcanos exist not absolutely, Angra it counts in his recent history with a black page. The New Year of 1980 an earthquake knocked down the city, destroying numerous buildings and causing the death to sixty people. In spite of the destruction, the inhabitants of the large city have reconstructed the city following the original planes. Its city-planning layout as soon as it has undergone modifications from century XVI. Peculiarly, still in pamphlets and books it uses like plane an engraving of end of century XVI. It is not necessary to let save the enchantment of his streets. The moldings of the windows provide color to the stroll. They emphasize a set of original buildings of the centuries XVIII and XIX, that remember the colonial houses of the Brazilian San Salvador of Bay, city hermanada with Angra. By all the city they distribute a good number of religious or civil constructions, like the convents of San Francisco, Our Lady of the Conception, the Hope, the Bettencourt Palace or the old episcopal palace.