In Portugal, there is a place with rocky cliffs, sea breeze hunting and green grass; A lighthouse, a cross, an ocean. This is Cape Rocca, Cape Rocca, Portugal.
Historically, Cape Roca is of great significance to Portugal and even Europe. Cape Rocca is equivalent to the two ends of Europe. When the earth is considered as a plane, Cape Rocca is considered as the westernmost point of the European continent, and further west is where God stays.
In the era of navigation more than 500 years ago, it was undoubtedly the most glorious period in Portugal. At that time, Portugal was powerful and dominated the world. That is, Cape Rocca recorded it in that great era. If you want to know about Portugal's maritime history, come to Cape Roca and experience it for yourself.
For every visitor to Portugal, Cape Roca is an inevitable choice. Today, we also made a special trip to the ends of the earth in Europe to feel the sailors' last memories of the voyage.
Park the car and we walked along the winding narrow path. There is a green lawn along the road and small broken flowers are in full bloom. Petite and lovely ivory stamens are shy and fragrant, like a huge floral carpet. "Algae in full bloom, seagulls on the shoulders" is also the most affectionate description of Cape Roca by Portuguese poets.
We walked on the path between the floral carpets, full of vitality in front of us, and the whistling sea breeze in our ears. We came to the "end of the world".
Cape Rocca is a cliff, about140m high. Four GAI stretches a long coastline, which is the westernmost tip of the European continent and a world-famous cape.
Cape Rocca was not discovered at the beginning, but was unknown for thousands of years, until Camons's Song of Lusitania was born.
/kloc-In the 5th century, the Portuguese expedition set sail from Lisbon, and it was by bypassing Cape Rocca that they were able to advance into a wider unknown world, thus opening up the road to the sea and making Portugal develop into a prosperous maritime empire.
Later, the Portuguese built a 20-meter-high red and white lighthouse at Cape Roca, which pointed out the direction for the warriors who went out to sea for exploration.
Today, this red and white lighthouse built in 1772 still stands tall on the cliff, guiding the lost people to go home.
It is said that Fleming, the author of "007" series, walked along the coastline to the lighthouse at Cape Rocca every day, sat on the rocks under the cliff and meditated, capturing the surging inspiration from the Atlantic Ocean, and successively created more than ten 007 series novels such as casino royale.
On the cliff in Cape Roca, there is also a simple and simple cross monument facing the ocean. Approaching the cross monument, hard and irregular stones support this monument, but simple words are engraved with great history.
There is a resounding poem engraved on the tablet in Portuguese: the land ends here, and the sea begins in Siaki, Onde a terra Seacaba e o Mar come? A, it comes from the greatest Portuguese poet Luis Camons Luis de Canc? Es describes the epic "Soul of China, Portugal" by a Portuguese navigator who opened a new route.
The tall cross monument is engraved with the longitude, latitude and height of Cape Rocca, 38? 47. west longitude 9? 30, 140 meters high, always reminding the special geographical position occupied here.
Corresponding to it is a geological marker stone engraved with the shape of a sailboat rudder not far away. A lighthouse monument, a sign stone, a lighthouse stands in a corner of the world, facing the endless Atlantic Ocean and watching the vicissitudes of the world.
It records the beginning of the most important changes in European history and even world history, and is called "the great maritime history of world discovery set sail from here".
Walking along the path, there will be a feeling of walking to the horizon. When you walk to the cliff fence, you can see the endless blue ocean that rolls forever. The sound of the waves beating against the rocks on the shore came intermittently, and the sea breeze was sometimes gentle and sometimes whistling.
The steep cliff extends to the Atlantic Ocean like a giant's arm. In the interweaving of the sound of the waves and the wind, the waves constantly impact the rock cliffs.
Walk back and forth carefully along the cliff path, and you can see the steep cliff when you bow your head.
The towering cliffs are constantly washed away by the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, and nature's uncanny workmanship carves rocks of various shapes.
For thousands of years, this huge rock stretching out to the sea is like a lonely old man, helplessly watching the nightmare of the choppy Atlantic Ocean and Europe.
At this moment, standing on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the sky is light blue, the sea is dark blue, and the sea breeze is rolling waves, which is very close.
Standing at Cape Rocca, you can deeply feel the strong wind and passionate waves blowing from the Atlantic Ocean. This contact with the skin may never be forgotten. Like firmness on the edge of a cliff, stability in stormy waves.
When we stand at the westernmost tip of the European continent and feel the surging Atlantic Ocean, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of stormy waves the Portuguese fleet encountered at Cape Rocca!
Looking at the Atlantic Ocean close at hand, watching the stormy waves lapping on the shore, and looking at the red and white lighthouse standing high on the edge of the cliff, you will feel: how small people are; Nature is so vast and mysterious. We should be grateful, cherish and seriously live in the present, at least we still have today.
Come on! Come to Cape Rocca and tell the Atlantic all your passions. Then, turn around and leave and sail like a Portuguese navigator.
Portugal, a small country with spectacular Atlantic coastline on Iberian Peninsula in Europe, experienced the glory of the great voyage, and a group of pioneers of maritime exploration plundered a lot of wealth, resources and land from other countries.
The sea made them rise, but it also brought centuries of hidden pain. They also experienced chaotic civil wars and painful earthquakes. Now she has gone through many vicissitudes, and still does not change her beautiful face.
Cape Rocca is really different from other places. It is so steep that people feel that standing on the edge of the cliff may be murdered at any time, and the smooth wind is the most suspicious killer. The sea breeze here is so strong that you can't wear a hat. Pay attention to wind, sun and cold.
Standing on the corner of Rocca, I can see far away without any obstacles, and my eyes seem to penetrate the whole world. Its southeast is the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa; To the southwest is Cape Horn in southern Chile, which is also known as the three major ends of the world.
I remember that the documentary "The Rise of Great Powers" once described Cape Roca, a Portuguese cape adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. Located in the west of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, Cape Roca is the westernmost point of Portugal and the westernmost point of the European continent. This geographical coordinate makes Cape Roca full of commemorative significance and yearning.
Cape Rocca affects faith, light, poetry, courage, imagination and hope in the heart.
Time flows quietly in Cape Rocca. Go to the Iberian Peninsula to find the end of the European continent and explore immortality for even a second.
How romantic it is to have a close contact with the Atlantic Ocean at the ends of the earth, sit next to your beloved and wait for the sunset to slowly fall into the ocean!
One of the few buildings is the tourist center in Cape Roca, where tourists can send postcards with salty sea breeze and send the breath of the Atlantic Ocean far away. Note: Be sure to let the staff affix the special seal ~
There is also the only public toilet in Cape Roca Scenic Area. You need to buy a ticket at the counter first, 0.5 euros, but if you buy coffee and dessert at a coffee shop, it's free.
The wall of the service center is inlaid with the scenery of Cape Rocca and the ceramic tile painting of sintra Castle, which is very beautiful.
If you have to make a proof for this strong trip, you can buy a particularly exquisite proof at the tourist center on the shore for 5 euros. The certificate is printed in Portuguese, English and French, not only with the geographical map of Cape Roca and the Portuguese national emblem, but also with the words "When, where and when someone visited the westernmost point of the European continent". Authorized by Mayor sintra, signed and sealed with wax, which proves that it has successfully reached the end of Europe.
The ends of the earth in Europe, no buildings, no tickets, no vendors. There is only boundless pride, full of beautiful scenery and full of literary atmosphere.
Although there are no amazing buildings here, there are only vast land, deep sky, vast sea and free and open wildflowers. However, when our feet are on the edge of this land, the sea breeze blowing along the Atlantic Ocean will only be amazing and intoxicating.
Standing on the corner of Rocca can let your thoughts flow freely. This is a place where your heart can be quiet and your thoughts can fly.
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