Cabo da Roca Lighthouse
Colares, Portugal
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Cabo da Roca Lighthouse stands on a granite and limestone promontory 165 metres above the Atlantic, at the westernmost point of Portugal and continental Europe, in the civil parish of Colares in the municipality of Sintra. A stone third-order lighthouse 22 metres tall, it dates its construction to 1758 and originally began operating in 1772. It was the first purpose-built new lighthouse constructed in Portugal, as earlier lights were placed on existing platforms or pre-existing beacons.
- Built
- Type
- lighthouse, cultural heritage
- Materials
- stone
- Heritage
- heritage without legal protection
- Height
- 22 m
- Place
- Colares, Portugal
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