[22.05.2008] The Cabo de São Vicente is the most south-western point of the European mainland. Already the Celts worshipped this place, the Romans consecrated it to Saturn and the Christians to Saint Vicente whose corpse is said to have been washed ashore in the area about 300 BC. They built a cloister which was destroyed by Sir Francis Drake, the remains disappeared in the great earthquake in 1755. In the 19th century the site [more]