Cap Boujdour

For 12 years, Portuguese explorers stopped here, convinced that the Earth ended beyond this cape. Gil Eanes was the first to round it in 1434.

Cap Boujdour — Ras Boujdour in Arabic, "Cape of Danger" — was for centuries the known limit of the Western world. Medieval sailors believed that beyond lay sea monsters, boiling waters and a fall into the void.

Gil Eanes, Portuguese navigator to Prince Henry the Navigator, broke this myth in 1434. His rounding of the cape opened the maritime route to sub-Saharan Africa and revolutionized human history.

Today, the cape offers spectacular cliffs plunging into an intensely blue Atlantic, constant winds making it a paradise for glide sports, and waters among the world's most fish-rich thanks to the cold Canaries current.