The Lighthouse of Cabo de São Vicente is a beacon/lighthouse located along the coastal peninsula of Sagres Point in the civil parish of Sagres, in the Portuguese municipality of the Vila do Bispo.
The lighthouse is situated on the tip of the Cape of St. Vincent, located 7 km (4.3 mi) from the western edge of the civil parish of Sagres, guarding one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The traditional land's end of Europe, the extreme southwesternmost point on the continent, it was an essential landfall for sailors returning from Africa and the Americas. One of the most powerful lighthouses in Europe [...], its two 1,000 W lamps can be seen as far as 60 km (37 mi) away.
The 28-metre (92 ft) round cylindrical stone tower, with lantern and gallery, rises from a 2-/3-story keeper's complex. The beacon itself has operated with a hyper-radiant Fresnel lens (larger than 1st order) since 1908, with a focal plane of 86 metres (282 ft) and demonstrating one quick white flash every 5 seconds. The unpainted lighthouse tower includes red-painted lantern and the keeper's white-painted house with red roof. A fog horn has given two 5-second blasts every 30 seconds. Google
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The Lighthouse of Cabo de São Vicente is shining brightly in the background.
Within the Fortaleza de Sagres, this small whitewashed church dating from 1570 is a simple barrel-vaulted structure with a gilded 17th-century altarpiece. Elephants and antelopes feature on its tiled altar panels. Lonely Planet
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Fortaleza de Sagres, Portugal
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Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém) […] is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. Wikipedia
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PS not a very sharp image due to inability to stop along the busy highway.
In recent years, some of the white storks prefer to build and live in massive nests on tall electrical utility towers in colonies in the Algarve, Portugal.
They return to the same nest every year. Google
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