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35/49.- Algarve, Ponta de Sagres, Fortress

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Another windswept cape, where Henry the Navigator built a fortress and a navigation academy, to realize his dream of conquering the oceans beyond the Canary Islands. In the foreground, a padrão, a column surmounted by a coat of arms and a cross, which explorers used as a sign to mark the territories that they claimed as their country’s property.

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