Festival da Povoação

The Youth Association of the Municipality of Povoação, in the year 2011 reactivated the famous summer parties that were held in this Azorean village.

The Festival of Population as a Festival, has presented year after year posters combining regional artists, national artists and even international artists.

As a true Music Festival that is, the Festival of Population always proposes to its audience the most varied offer in musical terms. Offers from Fado to electronic music through Rock and Pop / Rock. So we managed to get together in this Village of Povoação a week so wide that it is the same as saying: from 8 to 80.

This Festival, as an effective tourist promoter that is since the 90's associated with its image the fact that the Village of Povoação is the first town of the Island of São Miguel. Taking advantage of all the divulgation of the event and the very days of the event to highlight this and other distinguishing characteristics of the Municipality has been a winning bet with repercussions on all the businessmen of the tourist branch of this Municipality.

This Festival, in addition to the regional cultural panorama was affirmed in 2016 in the panorama of international festivals, receiving the EFFE Label quality label for 2017 and 2018 of the European For Festival Festivals For Europe.

To the unique characteristics of this Municipality the Population Festival joins, making, for this reason, reach us people from all over the world and with great focus in our diaspora. Being such a very important reason for the image of the tourism of Povoação and all associated brands.

In short, getting to a peripheral municipality with about 6,300 inhabitants, scattered over 6 parishes, for three days, close to 20,000 people is proof of the tourist impact that this event has.