Nazare Portugal on the west side about 60 miles from Lisbon. Nazare is a town on the west side of Portugal facing the Atlantic Ocean. Nazare is renown worldwide for its incredibly huge waves some as high as 100' Surfers from all over the world come here between October to March. The Guinness book of world records is a wave 86' high by a German surfer Sebastian Steudtner.
We went there in late April w/expectations of the huge waves only to realize that the water was almost flat w/no wave activity while we were there.
Nazare has a large beach community w/Restaurants & shops along the beachfront strip. The most famous viewpoint is the red lighthouse. There is a fee of 2 euros to view the waves from the platform read more