Praia da Luz
Praia da Luz ("The Beach of Light") is a resort located about 6km from Lagos in the Algarve, Portugal. It is a holiday destination drawing visitors mainly from Portugal, Britain, France and Germany.
Praia da Luz (also known as "Luz de Lagos" or "Luz") is the name of the tourist village and also of the beach. Residual activities from its origins as a fishing village are now only found in isolated pockets to the west, and it is now dominated by several holiday-villa complexes.
Praia da Luz beach is an intermediate size Blue Flag beach with two distinct zones: the white sand characteristic of Algarve beaches and the 'rock zone'. The water is clean and transparent but the temperature is somewhat variable.
The church of Nossa Senhora da Luz (Our Lady of the Light), from which the village takes its name, was badly damaged in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and its restoration was funded by local contributions.
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Shortly before her fourth birthday, Madeleine McCann went missing on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007 from a holiday flat in Praia da Luz. Madeleine's parents had put her and her siblings, two-year-old twins, Sean and Amelie, to bed and left them alone in the flat in order to dine in a restaurant about 120 metres away at the time. As of October 18, she is still missing.
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