Our environmentally friendly souvenir-magnet is made on a pressed sheet of cork oak bark, and is decorated natural sand from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Such a natural souvenir will surely take its rightful place in your collection of magnets.
Sagres: the wind of wandering! Sagres in Portugal is the border of Europe, the extreme southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. High rocky cliffs crash into the waves, where the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea mix. In Sagres, as in many places on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, the waves are high and fast, so surfers come here to study at a local school and compete with the surf. On a bare rocky windy promontory, only rare bunches of grass with squat shrubs survive, and flowers that are hardy in this cruel climate bloom in spring. There is no grandiose palace, no elaborate mosaics, no famous shrines. But in 2016, Sagres received the European Heritage Label, which is awarded to places that have played a special role in European history. Why exactly Sagres became the outpost of the discoveries of the Portuguese crown? Why exactly this deserted cape on the edge of Portugal became the cradle
expeditions that managed to mark on the map the shores of hitherto unknown West Africa and later - to round the Cape of Good Hope and find a sea route to India? Then the world of Europeans - at first only scientists and monarchs - began to expand. Ships sailing from different ports of Europe, they began to look for a sea route to India, to reach the shores of Central and South Africa, to get to America ... Expeditions were equipped not for the sake of science, but for the extraction of treasures - spices, gold, slaves; however, it was they who began, one by one, to fill in the blank spots on imperfect
at that time maps of the world. And Sagres was a kind of starting point in this conquest of the New World by the Old Light.
Material: Cork bark, sea sand, magnet, varnishes.
Size: 10x7.5 cm.
weight: 24 g.
Manufacturer: Handmade, own production. Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal.
