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Cabo da Roca, a tourist attraction and limit of continental Europe, with the lighthouse in the background Close-up of the base and main tower of the Cabo da Roca complex Main beacon on the lighthouse The initiative to construct the lighthouse came from the Junta Geral da Fazenda do Reino on 1 February 1758, in an order to construct six ...
The Cabo da Roca Lighthouse (Portuguese: Farol do Cabo da Roca) is a beacon/lighthouse located 165 metres (541 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean, on Portugal's (and continental Europe's) most westerly extent. [2]
Lighthouse of Cabo Carvoeiro; Cabo da Roca Lighthouse; Cabo Raso Lighthouse; Lighthouse of Cabo de São Vicente; Cabo Sardão Lighthouse; Cacilhas Lighthouse; Cape Espichel Lighthouse; Cape Mondego Lighthouse; Lighthouse of Chibata
However, Cabo da Roca in Portugal is about 16.5 kilometres (10.3 mi) farther west and thus the westernmost point of continental Europe. Even in Spain Cabo Touriñán is 124 metres (135 yards) farther west. Monte Facho is the name of the mountain on Cape Finisterre, which has a peak that is 238 metres (781 ft) above sea level.
The modernist-style lighthouse in Póvoa de Varzim, known as the Farol de Regufe. The tallest lighthouse in Portugal, the Farol de Praia da Barra is situated on the coast of Gafanha da Nazaré The original Farol de Cabo Carvoeiro was found inadequate in 1881, and was reconstructed starting in 1886
The most westerly point of the Iberian Peninsula and of the European continent is Cabo da Roca, near Sintra; the southernmost, Punta de Tarifa, in Andalusia. The rocks at the base of the Cape St. Vincent lighthouse are called "fim do mundo", or "end of the world". Strabo reports (Book 3.1.4) as follows:
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Cabo Corrientes, Mar del Plata, a cape in Argentina; Cabo da Roca and the Cabo da Roca Lighthouse, Portugal; Cabo de São Vicente, a headland in the Algarve, Portugal; Cape Delgado, a cape on the border of Mozambique and Tanzania; Cabo Girão, a cliff on Madeira, Portugal; Cabo Meredith, the Spanish name for Cape Meredith, Falkland Islands