Sete Cidades

The two lagoons are actually part of a single very very large volcanic caldera Legend has it that the Sete Cidades lagoon owes its colors to the tears of a princess and a shepherd. Daughter of the king of this enchanted land, the young princess met a shepherd during her stroll through a field with whom she began spending each of her days speaking to. They fell madly in love. Having discovered this, the father, who had already planned his daughter's marriage with a prince from a neighboring kingdom, forbade the princess from seeing the shepherd again, conceding her one final encounter. That was when the princess, whose eyes were blue, and the shepherd, whose eyes were green, cried so much that they gave origin to the blue and green lagoons, respectively. In truth, the smaller, green lagoon simply reflects the color of the dense vegetation that surrounds it, and the blue lagoon, on fair weather days, reflects the blue skies.

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