uninhabited... BERLENGAS🇵🇹
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Good morning in this beautiful day!!! 🤝
Happy to see you with me in Portugal🇵🇹
Today I'm taking you to Peniche and in to the Atlantic ocean to see this gem of Portugal - Berlengas islands.
The Berlengas are a Portuguese archipelago consisting of small Atlantic islands 10 to 17 kilometres (6.2-10.6 miles) off the coast of Peniche, Portugal, in the Oeste region. These islands were traditionally known to British mariners as "the Burlings".The only island where is activity is its largest island, Berlenga Grande, although there is currently no permanent habitation in the archipelago. The other islands are grouped into two groups of islets, the Estelas Islets and the Farilhões-Forcados Islets.
The islands are thought to be a former sacred place adopted by the Phoenicians in the first millennium BC where the cult of Baal-Melqart was celebrated.
In 1513, with the support of Queen Eleanor of Viseu, monks from the Order of São Jerónimo established a settlement on the island to offer assistance to navigation and victims of frequent shipwrecks. The monastery founded there, the Monastery of the Misericórdia da Berlenga, remained until the 16th century, when disease, lack of supplies and poor communication (due to constant inclement weather) forced the monks to abandon their service on the island.
After the Portuguese Restoration War, during the reign of King John IV, the council of war determined that the demolition of the monastery ruins and the use of their rocks to build a coastal defense would help protect the coastal settlements; the Fort of São João Baptista das Berlengas was constructed from the remnants of the monastery ruins. By 1655, it had already, during its construction, resisted an attack.
The island's lighthouse (dubbed Duke of Braganza by locals) was constructed in 1841. In the 20th century a solar panel was installed in the lighthouse's 29-metre (95 ft) column, providing a 50-kilometre (31 mi) field of vision.
The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), meeting in Dresden (Germany) from 28 June to 1 July, while adding 18 new sites, included the Berlengas to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
As the archipelago has been declared a reservation area for the protection of the local fauna (primarily sea birds), it is only visited by scientists and, in the summer, by a small number of tourists.
There is little soil on the rocky archipelago, so little plant life is supported.Sea birds and marine life, such as mackerel, mullet, and swordfish are abundant.
At 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) long and 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) wide, Berlenga Grande is the largest of the islands of the Berlengas Archipelago. At its highest, it rises to 88 metres (289 ft) above sea level. The island has a number of notable caves, including Gruta Azul and Furado Grande. The Furado Grande is a natural tunnel 70 metres (230 ft) wide and 20 metres (66 ft) tall which crosses through the entire island before opening up into a dramatic bay.
The Fort of São João Baptista is located in the waters off the southeastern coast of Berlenga Grande, on a small islet connected to the island by a causeway/arch-bridge and anchorage to the north. It has been retrofitted as a rest house for tourists to stay at while visiting the islands. It was closed when I visited.[Wiki]
Well, enjoy this amazing place and of course I'm always happy for your comments!
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Your videos are beautiful and so well thought out. Obrigada Andrejas
Obrigado, Jen 🙂👍
Wow, nice video. You made it look easy to get around.Thanks for showing us.
It was most active hours in Portugal, since I needed get back to the boat 😁 Thank you for your comment 🫡
Woowww,absolutely woow🥰🥰🥰
Glad you like it 🙂✌️
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Superīgi! Katru reizi liekas, lūk šī ir skaistākā vieta! Bet atkal jauns video un jauna skaistākā vieta! PALDIES! dvēsele priecājas par to, ka tik daudz pasaulē skaistumu un pastāv iespēja tos redzēt! video rullē!
🙂🧡 Best comment 💯
Now that did look like my idea of fun ! A pity we missed it 🤷♀️
Excellent filming by the way 👏
@@susanheasman3512 Thank you, it was real fun, only time limit could be longer.
And well then - you need to come once more to Portugal 🙂👍
Really Cool island! 🏝️😍
🙂🙂🙂 you say?
@@millionplacesoneworld me say 😄
@@gundegafrankevica8732 😄
Nice place bro... from India 😊
Thank you...good to hear from India 👍🇮🇳 Still here, now in Goa 🌍
@@millionplacesoneworld we are on the way of Nagpur.....
@@threesisters2397 Have a safe trip 🌍🙂
Seagulls 🤣
Yeah they are mean 😄
@@millionplacesoneworld I was born in Peniche and we despise seagulls so much! Is the amount of them, like a plague.
Any way every summer I spent in Berlengas as a kid, yeah we could stay there if you knew the right people ;) Elders always told me to avoid attacks from seagulls just keep spinning a towel or shirt above your head and they will not charge you. It works XD
It would be cool to stay at Berlengas. I think there are places to stay there now, right?
Seagulls attack my drone every spring. To be honest, they are most aggressive in Peniche and Sesimbra. Later in the summer, they calm down 😄 In my Sesimbra video, I got them right in the frame following me. For now, they have just pooped on me without attacking😂😂😂 Thanks for your comment 👍