Madeleine McCann went missing from her family’s holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, a seaside resort in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007.

Exact location

  • She disappeared from apartment 5A in a holiday complex near the Ocean Club resort in Praia da Luz.
  • The apartment is on the corner of Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva and Rua Dr Francisco Gentil Martins, close to the resort’s pool, tennis courts, and tapas restaurant.

Brief context

  • Madeleine was three years old and asleep in the apartment with her younger twin siblings while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant within the same resort area.
  • Her disappearance from that Praia da Luz apartment has become one of the most widely reported missing-person cases involving a child.

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