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Visit lighthouse at Cape Sao Vicente in Sagres
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Starting next week, the lighthouse at the cape of Sagres and 30 other lighthouses in Portugal without an appointment every Wednesday at 14h, 15and h 16 h can be viewed, what was previously possible only with prior notice.
The competent authority, Marine Portugals day, Visit this free program has initially limited to one year and invites locals, Residents and tourists, the interesting stories to be explained peppered with useful historical and technical details around this building and tell the lighthouse keeper.
So not who the Wednesday match, can also continue to experience on any other day a visit, The prerequisite for this is again the appointment.
That Kap Sao Vicente together with the Ponta de Sagres the southwestern tip of mainland Europe and has always been a mystical and sacred place, how many standing stones of the surrounding area testify. At the time of the Phoenicians and later the Romans, he was consecrated deities, the place "where the gods live and the sun sinks in the sea".
Later named the Christians the Cape after the patron saint of sailors, the St. Vincent de Zaragoza. For the traditions of the dead body shall St. Vicente was driven ashore in a boat and rescued his.
The lighthouse Sagres' is the most luminous in Europe, His light is 32 To see nautical miles, what about 60 Kilometers is. He was in 1846 built.
Great caution is required for all walkers, who want to explore the Cape on foot. Even if it may seem so appealing, to look at the cliffs, including the giant waves of the very front of, should restrain themselves and others from, because of the rocky and earthy base is no firm support and can sometimes give way to break into larger chunks and. Time and again there have been in past time to accidents, However, these were mostly due to great carelessness.
The cape is so one of the most impressive places in Europe, since it does not require any test of courage!
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