WESTERN Algarve full day

Visit Lagos, Sagres and Cape Saint Vincent, the end of the world... 

After pick-up from hotels, drive to Lagos.
It was from the bay of Lagos that the caravels set off on the great saga of the 16th century, searching for new worlds. Today the old cosmopolitanism is preserved, in one of the most beautiful cities in the Algarve. The people of Lagos are part of history: King D. Sebastião elevated it to the status of a city, after a journey to the Algarve in 1573, because he was so impressed by the warm welcome from the populace. It is well worth visiting its churches, museums, the castle and the walls. Finally we drive to Sagres, the legendary promontory. In 350 A.D. it was described by the Roman Rufus Festus Avienos in the following way: “the Cynete Cape, where the sidereal light goes down, emerges proudly as the extreme point of the rich Europe and goes into the salt water of the ocean, inhabited by monsters. There is then a promontory with frightening cliffs dedicated to Saturn. Almost 22 centuries later the magic and imposingness continue. In the fortress, the presence of Prince Henry the Navigator can be felt: this is where he dreamed up the magnificent epic of putting to sea and finding New Worlds, an adventure that was without parallel until five centuries later when astronauts went to the moon. Just a stone's throw away is the Cabo de S.Vicente, with its chapel, convent, fortress and lighthouse, the most south-westerly point in Portugal and in Europe. The cliffs are 60 metres high, dropping down into the furious spray of the waves and often hiding many tiny beaches, almost empty, where that paradigm of the perfect beach can be found, that we yearn for in our imaginations.
Return to the hotels. 

Tour itinerary
00h00  Arrival to Lagos
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00h00  Return to the hotels.

The above information is indicative, as it may change during the tour and from hotel to hotel.