We took a visit to the tip of the world. Properly, the tip of the world because the Europeans thought it earlier than the fifteenth Century. Sagres the tip of the world location is full of thriller and intrigue and centuries of historical past. It is the proper journey to go to, the spot in Portugal that was seen as being the tip of the world.
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Our information to the Algarve with youngsters
An final information to Portugal with youngsters
A winter journey to the Algarve
A highway journey by Spain and Portugal
A visit to the tip of the World – Sagres, Portugal
Sagres sits on the very South-Western tip of Portugal and on the very fringe of the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic sea is Cape St Vincent. This can be a landmark level for ships passing and one of many world’s busiest transport lanes. The ocean is gorgeous and blue however wild and unforgiving and the cliffs drop dramatically with sea birds nestled in crabs and sheltered corners. This place feels completely different and particular…and it’s.
For hundreds of years it was believed that this was the tip of the world – that because the water stretched away the ocean monsters lived out of sight, simply past the horizon earlier than the earth dropped off right into a horrible black gap. The Romans known as Cape St Vincent Sacrum Promontory (or Holy Promontory) and believed the solar sank right here – they might come to take heed to it hissing into the ocean because it was extinguished and watch it bleeding into the water. They thought of it a magical place the place the sundown was a lot bigger than wherever else. Right this moment there’s not an enormous quantity to see in Sagres, it is a sleepy city and beside the lighthouse at Cape St Vincent with its scattering of memento stalls and a small cafe there actually is not a lot to attract vacationers and vacationers. However do not let that put you off – there are cliffside walks and an attractive, dramatic shoreline.
And better of all, to face and look out to the ocean, to think about the terrifying world that Europeans believed lay past is ideal for younger (and outdated) imaginations. Learn extra of our posts on the Algarve with youngsters right here.
