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is a town in Nazaré Municipality in Portugal with a total area of 82,4 km² and a total population of 14,904 inhabitants. It is in subregion Oeste and Leiria district.
It has become a popular tourist attraction, advertising itself, internationally, as a picturesque seaside village. Located on the Atlantic coast, it has long sandy beaches (considered by some to be among the best beaches of Portugal), crowded with tourists in the summer. The town used to be known for its traditional costumes worn by the fishermen and their wives who worn the traditional headscarf and embroidered aprons over seven flannel skirts in different colours. These dresses can still occasionally be seen.
The town consists of three sections: Praia (along the beach), Sítio (an old village, on top of a cliff) and Pederneira (an old village, on a hilltop). The Praia and the Sítio areas are linked by the Nazaré Funicular, a funicular railway.
The original settlements were in Pederneira and in Sítio above the beach. They provided the inhabitants with safe bases against raids by Algerian, French, English and Dutch pirates that lasted until as late as the beginning of the 19th century.
According to the legend of Nazaré, the town derives its name from a small statue of the Virgin Mary, a Black Madonna, brought by a monk in the 4th century from Nazareth, Syria Palaestina to a monastery near the city of Mérida, Spain and brought to its current place in 711 by another monk accompanied by Roderic, the last Visigoth king. After their arrival at the seaside they decided to become hermits. The monk lived and died in a small natural grotto, on top of a cliff above the sea. After his death and according to the monk's wishes, the king buried him in the grotto where he left, on an altar, the statue of the Black Madonna.
The first church in O Sítio, was built over the grotto to commemorate a miraculous intervention (1182) by the Virgin Mary in saving the life of the 12th century Portuguese knight Dom Fuas Roupinho, possibly a templar, while he was hunting deer one foggy early morning. This episode is usually referred to as the legend of Nazaré. In memory of the miracle he had a chapel (Capela da Memória) built over the small grotto, where the miraculous statue had been left by king Roderic after the monk's death. Beside the chapel, on a protuberant rock 110 meters above the Atlantic, one can still see the mark made in the rock by one of the hooves of Dom Fuas' horse. This episode is usually called the Legend of Nazaré.
In 1377, King Fernando I of Portugal founded a new more spacious church which was totally transformed between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Church of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré is a rich baroque building, with splendid tiles on its interior. Behind and above the main altar visitors can see and venerate the miraculous image of our Lady of Nazaré.
Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara surfed a potentially record breaking giant wave estimated to be 90 feet or 27m high at the 2011 ZON North Canyon Show at Nazaré.
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A Nazaré é uma vila portuguesa, sede do concelho homónimo, no distrito de Leiria, região Centro e sub-região do Oeste, com cerca de 10 300 habitantes.
O actual espaço urbano da vila aglutina três antigos povoados, Pederneira, Sítio da Nazaré e Praia da Nazaré e novos bairros da segunda metade do século XX, como a Urbisol ou o Rio Novo, surgidos em consequência da expansão natural dos três núcleos primitivos. (P.D.M., 1997).
A vila é sede de um pequeno município com 80,49 km² de área e 15 158 habitantes (2011), subdividido em 3 freguesias, Nazaré, Valado dos Frades e Famalicão. O município é rodeado a norte, leste e sul pelo concelho de Alcobaça e a oeste confina com Oceano Atlântico.
O município, e a freguesia designaram-se Pederneira até 1912, ano em que, por lei, o topónimo foi alterado para Nazaré . O antigo concelho da Pederneira teve foral, em 1514, dado por D. Manuel I, e esteve integrado nos coutos de Alcobaça.
A Pederneira, actualmente um dos bairros da vila da Nazaré, mantém ainda o edifício dos antigos Paços do Concelho, o pelourinho, a igreja Matriz de nossa Senhora das Areias e a igreja da Misericórdia, como testemunhos da sua antiga condição de vila sede de concelho.
O topónimo Nazaré está intrinsecamente ligado à Lenda da Nazaré.
That one time I spent night up on these cliffs.
As I was getting a ride over to the top of Beachy Head, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I thought I was at the end of the world, both the sky and the ocean blended in perfectly together and I could not tell them apart, I can't even describe it, such a phenomenal and incredible experience.
Once the bus got close to the cliff, you could tell it apart better. As I chose to stay overnight, I made sure there was little to no wind (I got lucky with 0mph to 3mph towards morning) so the waves were more or less non-existent.
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Located on the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument includes the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. The Monument borders Kaibab National Forest to the west and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to the east.
This remote and unspoiled, 280,000-acre Monument is a geologic treasure, containing a variety of diverse landscapes from the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations range from 3,100 to 7,100 feet.
Visitors will enjoy scenic views of towering cliffs and deep canyons. Paria Canyon offers an outstanding three to five day wilderness backpacking experience. The colorful swirls of cross-bedded sandstone in Coyote Buttes are an international hiking destination. There are also opportunities to view wildlife, including California condors. There are two developed campgrounds just outside the Monument: Stateline and White House. Dispersed camping is allowed outside the wilderness area in previously disturbed areas.
A permit is required for hiking in Coyote Buttes North (the Wave), Coyote Buttes South, and for overnight trips within Paria Canyon.
Learn more at: www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/vermil...
Photo: Bob Wick, BLM California
Cliff Bridge across Valley Road in Scarborough. Tuesday 3rd May 2011
Note, Cliff Bridge was completed for the Cliff Bridge Company in 1826. Initially named Spa Bridge it was officially opened on 19th July 1827 and soon become a toll bridge. The bridge was purchased by Scarborough Borough Council in 1951 who soon abolished the tolls and it was awarded Grade II listed building status on 22nd December 1953
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Pausing to enjoy a Mediterranean vista. We tried to get down to the beach below here, making a pretty hairy downlimb most of the way, but the last 50 feet were too technical to attempt unroped.
Later, we were able to access some of these coves we couldn't get to from above by scrambling along the rocks at the cliffs' bases.
view of the Conglomerate Cliffs
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
near Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada
Zenza Bronica ETRSi 6:4.5 medium format SLR
Zenzanon f2.8 50mm PE aspherical lens with electronic leaf shutter
AE prism view finder and speed grip
Kodak Portra 160 ISO film
See [www.youtube.com/watch?v=hawoHRGaDFw] for Bronica medium format camera operation
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in the southwestern corner of Colorado, in the Southwestern United States.
Tynemouth is a town and a historic borough in Tyne and Wear, England at the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically part of Northumberland, the modern town of Tynemouth includes North Shields and Cullercoats. Wikipedia
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