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Cabo da Roca is a cape located 140 meters above sea level, on the Portuguese coast, in the hamlet of Colares of the municipality of Sintra, in the district of Lisbon. The poet Luís Vaz de Camões defined this place as "Aqui... Onde a terra se acaba e o mar começa..." (in Os Lusíadas, Canto VIII), in Italian Qui... where the land ends and the sea it starts. This phrase is engraved on the plaque of the stone monument which celebrates the particularity of the place: in fact, being located at 38° 47' north latitude, and 9° 30' west longitude, it is the westernmost point of the European continent.
A place of great tourist turnout, the cape is easily accessible by line 403 from the Sintra railway station. Nearby is a lighthouse dating from the eighteenth century and inhabited until 1970. Cabo da Roca is part of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, where a great variety of animal species can be found: cormorants, peregrine falcons, nocturnal birds of prey, seagulls, bats, foxes, vipers and lizards.