"Menorca has so many stories to tell beyond the beach." This is how Cristina Lozano begins the conversation, which sounds rather like an adage, on a sunny morning in Mahón. 

There is a raw often unsettling truth in the images captured by Andrea Santolaya.  

Arriving on the most mountainous island in the Azores archipelago, we are taken aback by the stunning colours of nature, a flora that rises from the volcanic ashes and moves us at every glance.  

On our way back from Furnas, still under the spell of the exotic gardens of the Terra Nostra botanical park, we headed to the south of São Miguel, following the winding roads of the island coast.

The invitation came from the Brazilian Furniture project whose aim is to promote the internationalisation of the sector.