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The Sagres Point ( of southern Portugal , which forms the southwesternmost tip of Europe, was already sacred ground in Neolithic times, as standing Menhir s in the neighborhood still attest. Its name still recalls the ''Promontorium Sacrum''. Sagres was at least as important during the Age Of Discovery as Cape Canaveral was during the early years of Space Exploration . It was from that place that Prince Henry The Navigator came in the 15th Century to work on his obsession to push back the frontiers of the known world, and opened Europe to the Great Discoveries. , Sagres, was the "Holy Promontory" known to the Greeks and Romans, a sanctuary so sacred it was forbidden to pass the night there.]] Even though the exact location of Henry's School of Navigation is not currently known (it is popularly believed to have been destroyed by the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake ), in the past, it attracted the best scholars in Europe concerned with the nautical sciences. Under Henry's Patronage , a community of brilliant Scientist s came there to teach and study, and accumulated correlated nautical Knowledge as it was brought back by Captains of successive voyages to once unknown places. The scholars in turn instructed less experienced captains about Atlantic Currents and Wind systems and the latest Navigation methods. At the Sagres Academy, among many important discoveries, . EXTERNAL LINKS |