High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Praia da Vitoria is a municipality in Portugal's Autonomous Region of the Azores (Portuguese: Regiao Autonoma dos Acores). It is located on the eastern fringe of the island of Terceira. It is the second largest municipality on the island, after Angra do Heroismo. Until 1981, when the Azorean Parliament passed an act elevating Praia da Vitoria to the rank of city ("cidade" in Portuguese), the town was also known as Vila da Praia da Vitoria (in Portuguese "vila" means a small town and is the title given to all capitals of municipalities which are not cities). Praia da Vitoria is a services, fishing and agricultural community, and boasts a large new marina popular with the yachting crowd. It is the location of the only sizable sand beach on Terceira. Settled in the early 15th century around a natural harbor and being the most important settlement in the fertile Terceira Island flatland known as the "Ramo Grande" area, and then an important wheat producing center, was designated a "vila" (i.e. the seat of a municipality) of the Portuguese realm in 1480.

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