Jardim Botanico Antonio Borges, Ponta Delgada

Beautiful botanical garden with a wide range of vegetation and above all huge ancient trees! The entry is free, there is a lot of shade if you want to escape from the scorching sun and you can get a nice rest on one of the benches. There are multiple entrance points but that said the place is pretty enclosed and thus nicely separated from the city outside.

Nice, peaceful, free gardens. While it’s not huge, you can enter from the top or bottom, and there are a number of paths, benches to sit, and little nooks to explore. I went thinking the plants would be local, but they’re curated from all over, Honduras to South Africa to SE Asia. Definitely a few species here I’ve never seen before!