Scenic point
Cabo da Roca
Cape Roca (English: Cape Roca, Portuguese: Cabo da Roca) is a cape adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean in Portugal. It is a narrow cliff about 140 meters above sea level and is the western end of the Sintra Mountains. It is located at 38 degrees 47 minutes north latitude and 9 degrees 30 minutes west longitude, about 40 kilometers away from Lisbon. It is the westernmost point of Portugal and the westernmost point of the entire Eurasian continent. People built a lighthouse and a cross facing the ocean on the cliffs of Cape Roca. Cape Roca was once rated as one of the "50 Most Worthy Places in the World" by netizens.
"Roca" means rock, and a simple stone tablet stands on the corner of the rock. Numbers and poems are engraved on it: the longitude and latitude indicated by the numbers indicate that this place is the westernmost point of the European continent. The artistic conception of the famous sentence "Land ends here, sea begins here" is also integrated into the vastness, sea and sky.
Looking at the map, the territory of Portugal is like a barge moored at the edge of the European continent, and Cape Roca is its beautiful porthole. Chinese poets like earth-shattering, while Portuguese poets like sensibility and warmth. "Seagrass is all over the head, seagulls are on the shoulders" is their affectionate description of Cape Roca.
Point Roca is indeed different from other places. It is so precipitous that people feel that standing on the edge of the cliff may be murdered at any time, and the unobstructed wind is the most suspicious killer; there are also those waves that look calm from a distance but are full of passion as soon as they approach it, shattering like emeralds , People are connected to the ethics of "rather the jade is broken".