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I left Lagos shortly after noon, to visit the fortress in Sagres. On arriving there you find a giant parking lot fronting an equally giant fortress. But the fortress building is a modern, Disneyesque recreation of the fortress entrance with not much inside except a ticket booth and gift shop. Some of the original fortress wall is incorporated in the building.

However the interesting part is on the peninsula on the other side of the fort. Sagres is located in the far southwest corner of Europe. It is on a high headland outcrop, so it has been of military value since the middle ages.

There is a several kilometer nature/history walkway around the perimeter of the headland, with great views of the cliffs and the ocean beyond. To me, the highlight was the Chamber of Sound. The ocean has undermined part of the headland creating a cave which has several openings to the surface hundreds of feet from the cliffs.

You can walk through the maze to the center where there is a grating over one of the openings where you can hear the ocean waves crashing into the cave. I have a video clip with audio of the waves among the photos here.
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