Sagres Cemetery

• Country Portugal
• Total identified casualties 2 Find these casualties
• Identified casualties from Second World War
• GPS Coordinates Latitude: 37.0084, Longitude: -8.94505

Location information

Sagres is on the southern coast of Portugal, and Sagres Cemetery is in a drive off the Lagos-Sagres road. On entering the town of Sagres you pass a sign "Vila de Sagres", and about 1.5 kilometres further on there is a 'Galp' petrol station on the left, right under a water tower. Travel a further 20 metres and on the right, just before a restaurant and roundabout, is an unmarked drive which leads to the cemetery. The Commonwealth graves will be found on the left-hand side of the cemetery, about half way down. Cemetery address: Rua Infante Dom Henrique - 8650 Sagres (Algarve). GPS Co-ordinates: 37.007728, -8.93755

Visiting information

Cemetery Opening:

Summer: 9am to 7pm

Winter: 9am to 5pm

For further information and enquiries please contact enquiries@cwgc.org

History information

Sarges Cemetery contains the graves of two airmen of the Royal Air Force who belonged to the crew of a Catalina aircraft which crashed off Sagres on 23 March 1943. The other bodies were not recovered.