Cabo de São Vicente

Cabo de São Vicente at the southwestern tip of Portugal is the most southwesterly point of mainland Europe, a dramatic 75-meter-high promontory of black basalt cliffs battered by Atlantic swell, capped by a working lighthouse and a 16th-century Franciscan convent ruin. The cape was a crucial navigational landmark for ships rounding Europe into the Mediterranean and beyond during the Age of Discovery, and a place of almost mythological significance in Portuguese maritime history. Sunsets here, with the Atlantic stretching to the horizon, are among the most dramatic in Europe.

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