Cascais
Cascais is a beach town in Greater Lisbon, Estremadura, Portugal, at the end of the mouth of the River Tagus as it meets the ocean, with spectacular beaches to be found on its Atlantic shorelines.Places of Interest
Highlights include Boca do Inferno and Cascais railway station.
Boca do Inferno
Boca do Inferno is a chasm located in the seaside cliffs close to the Portuguese city of Cascais, in the District of Lisbon. The seawater has access to the deep bottom of the chasm and vigorously strikes its rocky walls, making it a popular tourist attraction.Casa de Santa Maria
Museum
The Casa de Santa Maria is a historic house museum in Cascais, Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. Designed by famed architect Raul Lino, Casa de Santa Maria is a notable exemplar of both Portuguese Summer architecture and Lino's Casa Portuguesa school.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alcabideche and Galiza.
Cascais
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.6969° or 38° 41′ 49″ north
Longitude
-9.4205° or 9° 25′ 14″ west
Population
8,420
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
CAT
United Nations Location Code
PT CAS
Open location code
8CCGMHWH+QR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cascais” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاشكايش”
- Arabic: “كشكيش”
- Aragonese: “Cascais”
- Armenian: “Կաշկայշ”
- Asturian: “Cascais”
- Basque: “Cascais”
- Belarusian: “Кашкайш”
- Bulgarian: “Каскаис”
- Bulgarian: “Кашкайш”
- Catalan: “Cascais”
- Cebuano: “Cascais”
- Chechen: “Кашкайш”
- Chinese: “Cascais”
- Chinese: “卡斯凯什”
- Chinese: “卡斯凱什”
- Croatian: “Cascais”
- Czech: “Cascais”
- Danish: “Cascais Kommune”
- Danish: “Cascais”
- Dutch: “Cascais (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Cascais”
- Esperanto: “Cascais”
- Finnish: “Cascais”
- French: “Cascais”
- Galician: “Cascais”
- German: “Cascais”
- Greek: “Κασκαΐς”
- Greek: “Κασκάις”
- Hebrew: “קשקאיש”
- Hungarian: “Cascais”
- Ido: “Cascais”
- Indonesian: “Cascais”
- Irish: “Cascais”
- Italian: “Cascais”
- Japanese: “カシュカイシュ”
- Japanese: “カスカイス”
- Korean: “카스카이스”
- Lithuanian: “Kaskaisas”
- Lithuanian: “Kaškaišas”
- Lombard: “Cascais”
- Malay: “Cascais”
- Maltese: “Cascais”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cascais”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cascais”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cascais”
- Norwegian: “Cascais”
- Novial: “Cascais”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cascais”
- Ossetian: “Кашкайш”
- Persian: “کشکایش”
- Polish: “Cascais”
- Portuguese: “Cascais”
- Portuguese: “Município de Cascais”
- Romanian: “Cascais”
- Russian: “Кашкаиш”
- Russian: “Кашкайш”
- Scots: “Cascais”
- Serbian: “Cascais”
- Serbian: “Kaskais”
- Serbian: “Каскаис”
- Serbian: “Кашкаиш”
- Serbian: “Кашкајш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cascais”
- Silesian: “Cascais”
- Slovak: “Cascais”
- Slovenian: “Cascais”
- Slovenian: “Občina Cascais”
- Spanish: “Cascaes”
- Spanish: “Cascais”
- Swahili: “Cascais”
- Swedish: “Camões”
- Swedish: “Cascais”
- Tatar: “Кашкайш”
- Thai: “กัชไกช์”
- Turkish: “Cascais”
- Ukrainian: “Кашкайш”
- Urdu: “کشکایش”
- Vietnamese: “Cascais”
- Volapük: “Cascais”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cascais Municipality”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cascais”
- Welsh: “Cascais”
- “Cascais”
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