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Lisbon District

Cascais

Cascais is a beach town in , , , 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.
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  • Type: Town with 8,420 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Cascais municipality” and “Cascale”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Boca do Inferno and Cascais railway station.

Photo: Beatriznog10, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a chasm located in the seaside cliffs close to the 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.

Railway station
Photo: Mick Hoey, CC BY 2.0.

Museum
The was once a luxurious private residence in Cascais, , . It was acquired by the Cascais Municipality in October 2004 and is now a museum. It blends several different architectural styles and influences.

Cascais

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
node 25611736
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2269594
Wiki­data ID
Q273059
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cascais” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاشكايش”
  • 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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