The original song was composed by Joaquim Lima, a musician and director of the Philharmonic Band of Rabo de Peixe, the Filarmónica Progresso do Norte, in the 1890s, when a movement for autonomy was growing within the archipelago.

On the same day, António Tavares Torres, President of the Executive of the municipality of Ribeira Grande, accompanied by a group of friends from the Filarmónica Progresso do Norte, went to Ponta Delgada to play the hymn in public.

After playing for the members of the Autonomous Electoral Commission, as it became late, they gathered at the Campo de São Francisco with a large group of autonomy supporters and crossed the streets towards the Centro Autonomista, where they participated in a rally for the forthcoming general elections.

The first recognized hymn became the anthem of Partido Progressista Autonomista ("Autonomous Progressive Party"), led by José Maria Raposo de Amaral, in São Miguel.

Its lyrics were composed by the poet António Tavares Torres, a native of Rabo de Peixe and political militant of the Progressive Party.

Following the legal autonomy of the Azores, the Regional Government asked Azorean poet Natália de Oliveira Correia to compose official lyrics for the anthem.

It was sung by 600 children, wearing blue skirts/pants, white shirts and yellow handkerchiefs, and it was directed by professor Eduarda Cunha Ataíde.

The official anthem, "A Portuguesa", with which the "Hymn of the Azores" has no legal standing, is used in all governmental capacities, in sporting venues, and during other civic ceremonies.

De um destino com brio alcançado colheremos mais frutos e flores; porque é esse[b] o sentido sagrado das estrelas que coroam os Açores.