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Lagos (Portugal)
Restaurant Sal & Companhia located on the Rua 25 de Abril within the town of Lagos, Algarve, Portugal. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Restaurant Sal & Companhia located on the Rua 25 de Abril within the town of Lagos, Algarve, Portugal
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Lagos
How work, access and surfing shaped Lagos.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Lagos (pronounced ; Proto-Celtic: *Lacobriga) is a city and municipality at the mouth of Bensafrim River and along the Atlantic Ocean, in the Barlavento region of the Algarve, in southern Portugal.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work at the water’s edge
Yet, Lagos is also a historic centre of the Portuguese Age of Discovery, frequent home of Henry the Navigator, historical shipyard and, at one time, centre of the European slave trade.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
To the north of Lagos is the road to Silves, the first capital of the Algarve, Monchique (spa town/mountain), Milfontes, a coastal town and port/harbour of the city of Sines, that winds through the scenic protected landscape of the Southwest Natural Park (Costa Sudoeste Alentejana e Vicentina).
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Strand Bordeira Algarve Portugal
500px provided description: Strand Bordeira Algarve Portugal. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- 500px provided description: Strand Bordeira Algarve Portugal
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Lagos is part of PeakWave's surfing catalogue.
The local record used here does not support a single founding date for the sport, so the exhibition treats its sporting identity as an accumulation of use, access and organisation.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Lagos is recorded at 37.081° N, 8.673° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Ledger AOD.EU.LAGOS.V00
Lagos (Portugal)
Restaurant Sal & Companhia located on the Rua 25 de Abril within the town of Lagos, Algarve, Portugal. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Restaurant Sal & Companhia located on the Rua 25 de Abril within the town of Lagos, Algarve, Portugal
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Lagos now
By the 15th century, Lagos became the centre of Portuguese maritime exploration, with ships ordered south to trace the shoreline of Africa in order to find routes to India.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Lagos (Portugal)
AOD.EU.LAGOS.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Strand Bordeira Algarve Portugal
AOD.EU.LAGOS.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Lagos, Portugal overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.