Statue of Gonçalo Vaz Botelho, located at Largo do Concelho in the historic village of Vila Franca do Campo in Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal. Botelho was an explorer and soldier who settled the Eastern group of the Azores archipelago founding the village of Franca do Campo in the 15th century.

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