Monday 28 August the training ship Amerigo Vespucci concluded the 9th stage of the 2017 Education Campaign in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores Islands, after having traveled about 2300 miles in 24 days of ocean navigation almost exclusively by sail.
A stop on the island of San Miguel - nicknamed "Green Island" due to its unspoiled and luxuriant nature - which represented an important return of the "most beautiful ship in the world" to this Portuguese archipelago of volcanic origin, after 25 years of absence.
Ponta Delgada is the largest town in the archipelago of the Azores Islands, made famous for its coasts and the sea but also for its volcanoes and thermal pools.
A pearl immersed in the Atlantic Ocean, fascinated and fascinated by the crew and students of the Livorno Naval Academy, who have been able to appreciate the typically colonial architecture and the beauty of nature that remained uncontaminated, with verdant terraces from which it is it is possible to see varied plants and shrubs.
During the brief stop in the port, over 2400 visitors - many of them Italians - were able to visit the Vespucci while on Sunday 27 August, the small Italian community residing on the island took part in the Holy Mass celebrated on the ship's Cassero.
The Azores Islands therefore represent the return to the "European area" of Vespucci, which definitively concluded the adventure on the American continent last July 31, after the historic stop in New York.
The next stop in Cadiz from 5 to 8 September will finally see the Navy sailing ship land on the European continent, before entering the Mediterranean Sea again, setting off on the last stages of the 2017 Education Campaign.
