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Showing posts with label Sagres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sagres. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Visit Tonel Beach - Sagres

The beach of Tonel, located in the Town of Sagres, next to the Sagres Fortress, allowing a good view of Cape St. Vincent, is a sheltered beach despite strong winds that are felt in this area and has good conditions for surfing and diving.

Visit Awning Beach - Sagres

The Beach Awning, located in the Town of Sagres, a quiet beach is difficult due to the extensive road access and pedestrian trail to the beach. It is the last beach to the west before the Cape St. Vincent and surprised by the beauty and diversity of rock formations.

Visit Martinhal Beach - Sagres

The Martinhal beach, located in the village of Sagres, has an extensive sandy beach surrounded by a wide bay with small islands on the beachfront. Is protected from winds from the west and southwest by the end of Whaling. It offers good conditions for practicing surf and bodyboard. The cliffs facing the beach are of extraordinary beauty with caves and hollows.

Visit Praia do Barranco - Sagres

Praia do Barranco, located in the Town of Sagres is a small shell-shaped beach very quiet, surrounded by dunes. The beauty of the underwater area around the beach's attraction for many divers.

Visit Beliche Beach - Sagres

The Bunk Beach, located in the Town of Sagres is a very quiet beach frequented by lovers windsurfing, recreational fishing and diving. There is a huge cave on the beach much sought after. Access to the beach and made by a staircase.

Visit Praia da Ponta Blondie - Sagres

Praia da Ponta redhead, located in the Town of Sagres beach is a small and isolated, characterized by a reddish rock that gives him his name. This beach does not have surveillance, is frequented by nudists.

Visit Mareta Beach - Sagres

The Mareta Beach, located in the parish of Sagres has an extensive beach and is sheltered, as it is protected, the cable of Sagres, the westerly winds. This beach has good conditions for snorkelling where there are many underwater delights of a coast dotted with caves and hollows. It also conditions for surfing.

Visit the Port of Whaling - Sagres

The Port of Whaling, located in the Town of Sagres, is essentially a fishing port.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Visit the Islanders Martinhal - Sagres

The Islanders martinhal of belonging to the town of Sagres, and located opposite the beach martinhal are ideal for snorkelling and observation of underwater species.

Visit Fort Whaling - Sagres

The Fortress of Whaling, located in the Town of Sagres, was built around 1573, a site of a previous similar building. The fortress, of triangular plan, was designed to protect local fishermen and housed in a local chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Guia. Currently only a few are visible foundation walls due to the advanced state of disrepair and neglect.

Visit the Fortress of Bunk - Sagres

The Fortress of Bunk, located in the Town of Sagres, was built in the reign of King Manuel D. or John III, unspecified date, but prior to 1587. Function was to monitor a possible landing zone and protect the fishermen in the area.
Inside, there is a chapel dedicated to St. Catherine. The entrance of the fort, bearing a shield with the Royal Arms and an inscription dated 1632 which refers to the reconstruction of the fort this year.
The earthquake of 1755 caused him great harm, and was gradually abandoned. Was recovered in 1960.

Visit the Fortress of Sagres

The Fortress of Sagres is located in a dominant position crowning the Ponta de Sagres, in the village of Sagres.
From its craggy cliffs, constantly beaten by wind, the visitor enjoys a breathtaking panorama along the coast.
The fort itself and its surroundings, built in the Natural Park of Southwest Alentejo and Costa Vicentina, offer the possibility of a close look at the natural heritage of the coast, especially with regard to flora, sheltering some of the most representative species of the region (as eg alquitura-do-algarve-Pampilhosa the sea, the Zimbreiro, the Vincentian Polio, the herb-divine, esparto, the daffodil-the-sand, a salting, the whiner, the leek-mad, and the hollyhocks Perrexil-fish).
The fort was badly damaged by the tsunami immediately following the earthquake of 1755, when the giant wave climbed the height of the cliff. The state of ruin, caused by time and the elements, remained until the reign of King Mary I (1777-1816) when it ordered the reconstruction of the structure.
Classified as a National Monument by Decree of June 16, 1910, restoration work was promoted in the 1950s and 1960s seeking to distort the structure return it to original configuration sixteenth century.
Today, the Fortress of Sagres is open daily to the public. Besides being able to assess the structures before the eighteenth century, recovered, modern interventions allowed to visit the various areas of the headland, and can still take advantage of an exhibition center, a media center, shops selling cultural items and a cafeteria.
The Fortress has a polygonal bastion trace, and is composed of a curtain closing the land side and a wall that extends into the left flank. At both ends of the curtain rise from the mid-1793's ramparts, one under the invocation of Saint Barbara (patron saint of Artillery) and one of St. Anthony (patron saint of the Portuguese Army).
Halfway through the curtain opens the Gate Plaza Monumental in neoclassical style, topped by a coat of arms on the pediment and an epigraphic plaque referring to the then governor of the Algarve, D. Nuno José Nepomuceno Fulgencio John de Mendonca e Moura (1793).

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Visit the Cape of San Vicente - Sagres

The Cape St. Vincent is located in Cape St. Vincent, parish of Sagres.
It is a cylindrical tower in stone, with the annex building, is 28 feet tall. Red lantern and balcony

Visit Farol de Sagres

Farol de Sagres, Sagres belonging to the Town, is located at the tip and fortress of the same name.
The building has a square tower with lantern and balcony of service attached to a building ground for equipment. The lantern is white with red dome.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Visit the Statue of Prince Henry - Sagres

Visit the Chapel of Our Lady of Grace - Sagres

The Chapel of Our Lady of Grace, located in the Town of Sagres, have been built in the fifteenth century. It was remodeled in the sixteenth century was in November 1519, the High Church, with the invocation of Our Lady of Grace The portal of the facade is in Renaissance style. Inside we can see a carved altar originated in the Chapel of Fort bunk and three sepulchral slabs of stately old masters of the fortress (XVI and XVII).

Visit Cabo de Sao Vicente - Sagres

Cabo de Sao Vicente is located in southwestern Brazil in the Town of Sagres, was once dubbed "Sacred Promontory" by the Roman people, dedicated to the God Saturn.
It has a magnificent landscape where the earth with its cuts the endless sea cliffs, the Cabo de Sao Vicente is the image of Portuguese discoverer feeling, where you can observe the passage of vessels sailing between the Mediterranean and Northern Europe

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Visit the Ponta de Sagres

Ponta de Sagres, located in the Town of Sagres is a promontory located southwest of the village. Lies south of Cape St Vincent, considered the extreme southwest of Europe.
It's on the tip of which lies Sagres Sagres fortress and the Church of Our Lady of Grace