Finisterre - to “the end of the earth”

Bus to Finisterre. Took an 8-mile hike out to the tip of the continent marked by a lighthouse, and then to the beach for sunset.

The pre-Christian Celtic people believed that Finisterre was the spiritual boundary between the world of the living and the dead. Since Roman times, Finisterre was believed to be the westernmost point of the European continent (until with modern instruments found that Cabo da Roca in southern Portugal is actually 10 miles further west)Read more