#cabo da roca

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Big waves at Praia da Ursa. The bigger and smaller sea stacks are visible, the smaller is partially obscured. One is called The Bear, and one is The Bride, but I can't figure out which is which.

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Faro de Cabo da Roca. Sinta. Portugal

El punto más al oeste de la península ibérica y de la europa continental

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Cabo Da Roca | Portugal

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Cabo da Roca cape in Portugal

Portuguese vintage postcard

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Cabo da Roca, “the westernmost point of the Sintra Mountain Range, of mainland Portugal, of continental Europe, and of the Eurasian landmass.”

Serra de Sintra - Portugal

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24/02/2017 part2

Onde a terra acaba e o mar começa(ここに陸終わり、海始まる)

Nazaré→Lisbon

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🏍️✨ Acabei de dar um passeio de moto incrível pela Serra de Sintra até ao Cabo da Roca! Estradas desafiadoras, paisagens de tirar o fôlego e o vento no rosto… Não tem nada melhor! 🌲🌊 Se amam aventura e liberdade sobre duas rodas, este é o caminho para vocês! 🙌

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Farol do Cabo da Roca Lighthouse at the Westernmost Point of Continental Europe

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On the way to Cabo da Roca, we stopped at this seafood restaurant, the food was perfect!!!

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Cabo da Roca, Portugal. 2017

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LOTD: Cabo da Roca

(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/prtc.htm)

Cabo da Roca

1772. Active; focal plane 165 m (541 ft); four white flashes every 18 s. 22 m (72 ft) square stone tower, rising from a 1-story keeper's complex. 3rd order Fresnel lens in use since 1946. Tower painted white with unpainted stone trim; lantern painted red. Sergei Gussev's photo is below, José Manuel Fernandes has a lovely winter sunset photo, Lighthouse Digest has a good photo by Paulo Domingos, Trabas has Meyer's closeup photo, Guyomard and Carceller have many fine photos, Marinas.com has aerial photos, Huelse has a historic postcard view, and Google has a street view and a satellite view. This was the first Portuguese lighthouse built "from scratch," although several earlier lights were installed in existing buildings. Spain's Cabo Finisterre (see the Western Galicia page) and Portugal's Cabo de São Vicente (see the Southern Portugal page) may be more famous as western endpoints of Europe, but Cabo da Roca, the "Cape of the Rock," is actually the westernmost point of the Eurasian continent at 9° 29.8' W. The Romans called the cape Promontorium Magnum--the Great Cape. In 1997 the town council of Sintra erected a plaque at the lighthouse that reads in part, "Cabo da Roca: Onde a terra se acaba e o mar começa" (Here ends the land and begins the sea), a line from the famous poet Luís de Camões. Despite this geographical significance, the light here is not as important to navigators as the lights of Cabo Carvoeiro to the north and Cabo Raso to the south. As a result the lighthouse was long neglected; not until 1897 did it have a Fresnel lens, and for the next 50 years it had only a fourth order lens. The station is staffed by a crew of three keepers. It is surrounded by a national park, the Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais. Located atop a spectacular headland at Azóia, about 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Sintra. Site open, lighthouse open on Wednesday afternoons. Accessible by road, and parking is provided. . ARLHS POR-007; PT-186; Admiralty D2108; NGA 3376.

(photo found here; ©Sergei Gussev)