📹Ponta Delgada Aerial View

Certified demographic statistics demonstrate rapid structural decline across this isolated northern municipality. The permanent residential population dropped precipitously. Exactly 1,363 individuals resided here during 2011, whereas exactly 1,043 residents remain by 2021. Motivated local youth seek reliable hospitality wages southward, abandoning this dying agricultural zone. The annual September Festa triggers extreme structural gridlock, paralyzing the entire region temporarily. Although the massive VE4 tunnel shattered centuries of dark isolation, strict logistical planning remains absolutely necessary before approaching the immediate harbour zone. At-a-glance logistical constraints: - Arrive extremely early to secure immediate terrestrial parking. - The tiny ER101 pull-off accommodates exactly four compact vehicles. - Municipal parking meters at the eastern tunnel entrance demand exactly two euros daily. - Bring exact fractional currency for these municipal meters. - The solitary local ATM sits directly behind the historic 16th-century church. - The local medical pharmacy operates exclusively during brief early hours. - Public sanitation facilities occupy the lower coastal promenade. Distant 15-meter vessels seek safer eastern anchorages when unpredictable rip currents threaten navigation. Local shipwrights built 10-meter wooden vessels which were designed specifically for hostile coastal waters.