Cacela Island
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Portugal
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, was a peninsula
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....
up to the winter of 2010, when the sea cut the peninsula and turned its westernmost part into an island. Access to the island's beach is made by the public service of boat in summertime (1.5 € a round-trip per adult) near the Cacela Velha
Cacela Velha
Cacela Velha is a village located in the civil parish of Vila Nova de Cacela, municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, Algarve, Portugal...
pier named Fábrica.
The former peninsula was 4.4 kilometres in length and its width was 0.05 to 0.15 km. Both the island and the remaining part of the peninsula are located in the civil parish of Vila Nova de Cacela
Vila Nova de Cacela
Vila Nova de Cacela, or simply Cacela, is a town and civil parish in the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, the southeasternmost of the Algarve, Portugal. Cacela is an exclave of the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António, one of only three in Portugal to have exclaves. A lagoon and...
, which in turn is a part of the municipality of Vila Real de Santo António.