Cape St. Vincent

Cape St. Vincent (Portuguese: Cabo de São Vicente, ), next to the Sagres Point, on the so-called Costa Vicentina (Vincentine Coast), is a headland in the municipality of Sagres, in the Algarve, southern Portugal.

Read more about Cape St. Vincent:  Description, History, Lighthouse, 2007 Earthquake

Famous quotes containing the words cape and/or vincent:

    “A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Country of hunchbacks!—where the strong, straight spine
    Jeered at by crooked children, makes his way
    Through by-streets at the kindest hour of day,”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)