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What was once considered the end of the world, literally, and later a starting point for the Portuguese Discoveries, Sagres Fort has not received the treatment it deserves in recent times, being untouched for the past fifteen years. A new €8 million renovation project and the creation of an exhibition is currently taking place, expected to be completed by 2011. After three buildings located at the Sagres Fort were built in the 1990’s to attract tourism, the area has been completely untouched since, not receiving any maintenance or restoration work.

The environmental association A Rocha is planning to launch an ecotourism business to show the Algarve and Alentejo natural beauties. Guillaume Réthoré, one of the volunteers involved in forming the company assumes that the goal is to start before the end of 2010, but they don’t have a concrete date yet. Guillaume, which is a Biologist, explains to the Algarve Observer that the main purpose is to ”show the many wonderful places which don’t have much touristic pressure”, with special emphasis on the bird watching activities”.