Sunday, March 18, 2012

Shindelar: Portuguese Eurasian a secret door

Each corner of Shindelar are hidden surprises. The town a wild profusion of vegetation of trees, many hidden history of the royal family, Lords and exceedingly wealthy men left the beautiful house, back to the song corridor and fam like garden. It is close to the Atlantic, the sea breeze blowing, seafood rich, and the integration of the moors and Christians two kinds of civilization, is very suitable for the seaside people a pursuit of exotic culture. The Pena palace and Moorish the Great Wall represents two kinds of beauty here: romantic and delicate and rough vicissitudes.

Shindelar

Shindelar is located in the south of Portugal in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, about 40 kilometers to the northwest, is in the western end of the Eurasian continent town. The city is always Moore noble and Portuguese Royal Summer Resort, Moore left many ancient relics here. Since the beginning of 1995, Shindelar was listed by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.

Sina travel pictures: Cape Roca photograph: cold cloud MuxueSina travel pictures: Cape Roca photography:Han Yun Muxue

Cape Roca the most western Eurasia

"Rocca" in Portuguese means "rock", Cape Roca as the name suggests, the precipitous sea cliffs bare black rock color. Standing in the stands above the sea level 100 meters high on the cliff overlooking the boundless the Atlantic, there is a sea breeze hit from behind, to the people to the boundless blue illusion. The waves beat on the rugged rocks, the foam like waves four splash.

Here is the most western Eurasia, isEuropeThe"The remotest corners of the globe", is a voyage seaman last memory of the land. People built a lighthouse and a cross-ocean in Cape Roca cliff. There is a famous poem written in Portuguese: "monument to this land, sea begins."

Sina travel picture: the Cape Roca sign Photography: cold cloud MuxueSina travel picture: the Cape Roca sign photography:Han Yun Muxue

Compared with the scenery, the glamour of Cape Roca is more than a "standing at the end of the world.". In the age of sail at the beginning, do not know the earth is round seaman are concerned, the small Cape may really is the end of the earth. Even today, people already know that here is not the edge of the world, but facing the sea back to the mainland, but there will still be one of the tiny sigh, chest arise spontaneously from.

It also provides an interesting service, you can spend 5 euros to buy a certificate. The certificate is not only the geographical location map of Cape Roca and the coat of arms of Portugal, also was printed with "someone is the westernmost" Europe ". Fill in your name, the place on your footprint is printed.

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