A bracing, elemental stop: a lighthouse, a stone marker and sheer cliffs dropping to the ocean at the edge of the continent. The honest catch: it's literally just a viewpoint with a kiosk — once you've taken the photo and felt the wind, there's nothing else, and you need a car or to chain buses. Worth it slotted into a Sintra/Cascais loop, not as a standalone trek.
Cabo da Roca is the westernmost point of continental Europe, in the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, with a lighthouse and a Camões-quote marker · model-knowledge