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Albufeira Portugal
Albufeira 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
- Albufeira Portugal
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Sagres
How work, access and surfing shaped Sagres.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Sagres is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila do Bispo, in the southern Algarve of Portugal.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work at the water’s edge
The name Sagres derives from Sagrado (holy) owing to the important local religious practices and rituals that occurred during the pre-history of the nation.
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ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Sagres.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Surf en Sagres - panoramio
Surf en Sagres - panoramio. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Surf en Sagres - panoramio
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Sagres 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.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Sagres is recorded at 37.003° N, 8.948° 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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Albufeira Portugal
Albufeira 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
- Albufeira Portugal
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Sagres now
The church of Santa Maria, consecrated in 1519, to the invocation of Nossa Senhora da Graça (Our Lady of Grace) was constructed at the centre of the site, during the reign of King Manuel I of Portugal.
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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
Albufeira Portugal
AOD.EU.SAGRES.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Surf en Sagres - panoramio
AOD.EU.SAGRES.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Sagres (Vila do Bispo) overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.