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Miradouro do Facho Tickets & Tours

The Miradouro do Facho is located in serra do Facho (extension of the serra de Santiago), in the city and municipality of Praia da Vitória, on Terceira Island, Autonomous Region of the Azores, in Portugal.

Its name comes from the fact that, primitively, at this point a fire was kept, lit every night, with the function of Beacon warning to navigation.

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It is marked as "11 Faxo " in the" Planta da Bahia da Villa da Praia " (1805).

During the Portuguese Civil War (1828-1834), here in Serra do Facho, such as Pico do Capitão (Porto Martim), Pico das Cruzes (São Sebastião), Pico das Contendas (São Sebastião) and Monte Brasil (Angra do Heroísmo), the Liberals reestablished the old system of fachos (signs of flags on cross masts), which evolved to the point of being able to send more than 60 different messages in the mid-nineteenth century.

The viewpoint houses the monument of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, patron saint of the city, begun in 1983 and inaugurated on December 31, 1999. The bronze statue, authored by the sculptor Álvaro Raposo de França, is 6 meters high, installed on a pedestal of 16 meters high.

Accessed by a staircase on the hillside on the side of the city (ten minutes of pedestrian ascent) or by road, from its top you can discover a magnificent panoramic view of the city and its surroundings, from the Serra do Cume to the sandy beach of Praia da Vitória Bay.

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