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Imagine winding your way across a plateau carved into ancient fire — you’re traversing the heart of Caldeira de Guilherme Moniz, the largest volcanic caldera in the Azores. Once nearly 15 km across in its prime, this sunken bowl now displays softened rims, eroded edges, and lava-flooded plains. As you drive its narrow roads, on either side rolling fields and grazing pastures stretch toward low ridgelines, dotted by volcanic domes, springs, and sharp rock outcrops. The contrast is striking: pastoral farms set within an immense volcanic skeleton.

Each twist in the road reveals another view — fields partitioned by stone walls, cattle wandering between patches of green, and distant forested slopes climbing out of the crater rim. The roads don’t just connect farms, they thread through a geological memory, where volcanic domes and basalt flows peek from beneath grass, and ancient eruptions sculpt the land you’re driving through. It’s a drive that feels half agricultural, half adventure — a lived landscape inside a giant crater.