{"id":59306,"date":"2026-10-14T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59306"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:11:55","slug":"furnas-valley","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/nl\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/azores-region\/furnas-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Furnas Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the village of Furnas, on S\u00e3o Miguel, the earth is still cooking. Steam rises from holes in the ground beside the street, hot springs feed iron-coloured pools, and in the middle of it all the famous cozido stew is buried in volcanic soil each morning to be lifted, steaming, at noon. This is one of the great geothermal landscapes of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The valley where the volcano breathes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Furnas sits inside the crater of a volcano that has been building itself for some eight hundred thousand years; its caldera, eight kilometres across, shelters more than thirty mineral springs, each with its own character. Thermal bathing has been a ritual here for centuries \u2014 at the Parque Terra Nostra, whose two-hundred-year-old garden surrounds a warm, iron-rich pool, and at the more intimate Po\u00e7a da Dona Beija. At the lake, the Lagoa das Furnas<\/a> page explores the caldeiras on its shore, while the island’s capital, Ponta Delgada<\/a>, is an hour away by road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n