Where did Madeleine McCann go missing in Portugal? Child's last known location ... trends now
Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old from Rothley, Leicestershire, went missing from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3, 2007.
Sixteen years later, global police efforts continue to uncover clues around her sudden and unexplained disappearance.
Authorities searched the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir in May, some 30 miles from where Madeleine was taken, as investigations ramp up into the possible role of sole remaining suspect Christian Brueckner.
Madeleine's parents have waited nearly two decades for information that could bring them closer to understanding how their toddler vanished from the resort in 2007.
As prosecutors try to connect Madeleine's disappearance to the reservoir Bruckner once frequented 30 miles away, MailOnline recaps the events around her disappearance.
Madeleine McCann (left), who went missing in 2007, and Christian Brueckner (right), the sole suspect in the case
The apartment where the three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007 while on holiday with her parents
This photograph taken on May 25, 2023 shows a general view of the Arade dam, on the third day of new search operations amid the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance
Where did Madeleine go missing?
Madeleine McCann was staying with her family at a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal when she disappeared in May 2007.
Praia da Luz is a small village in the Algarve home to a tiny population of around 1,000, popular with British holidaymakers.
The village, just outside of Lagos, is a 40 minute drive via the A22 from the Arade dam near São Bartolomeu de Messines, in the municipality of Silves, where investigators are again now searching for clues linked to her disappearance.
Parents Kate and Gerry McCann had taken Madeleine and her two-year-old twin siblings on a seven-night spring break with a group of friends on Portugal's south coast.
At the Ocean Club resort, they were joined by seven of their adult friends and five children.
The resort had amenities including a Tapas bar, about 165ft from the family's apartment, where the adults chose to dine out on May 3, the evening Madeleine disappeared.
The apartment block was on one side of the complex, the bar on the other, with a pool and a short walk separating the two.
The twins were left together in a travel cot, with Madeleine - a year older -put in her own bed in the same room.
Once asleep, the McCanns joined the 'Tapas Seven' for a meal, as they had done most evenings, and agreed on a rotation for parents to check in on the eight children every half-hour.
Police are aiming to build up a picture of sole suspect Christian Brueckner's life on the Algarve and the places he frequented as they search the Barragem reservoir in Silves, Portugal
A man walks next to the apartment where three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, in Praia da Luz, Portugal, June 5, 2020
When did Madeleine go missing?
It was the penultimate day of the holiday when Madeleine went missing.
After a day of activities, Kate and Gerry McCann put their three children to bed at around 7pm.
Madeleine fell asleep in pink pyjamas and the parents relaxed with a bottle of wine.
At around 8:30pm, the McCanns joined their friends for a meal at the Tapas bar nearby.
Staff had made a note to book the same table for the group, arriving at the same time each evening, for the last four nights of the trip.
At dinner, the family arranged a rotation for parents to check up on the children.
Gerry McCann checked on Madeleine and her siblings at 9pm and found nothing amiss.
But at 9:30pm, one of the friends found the room disturbed, a door left open.
He checked in on the children and saw that the two twins were in their cot. He did not look in Madeleine's bed.
When Kate McCann went to check up on the children at 10pm, she found Madeleine had disappeared.
'Madeleine's gone! Someone's taken her!' she was reported to have said, running back to the restaurant.
Around the same time, a man was seen carrying a child matching Madeleine's description.
Madeleine McCann vanished from the holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, prompting searches of the region
The McCanns joined friends for dinner at the resort, close to the room, on May 3 after a day of activities with the children
Two e-fit images of the same man seen in Praia da Luz on the night Madeleine disappeared were released by the Met Police in 2013
What happened next?
Immediately after the disappearance, police were called to the resort in Praia da Luz. Friends and resort staff joined in a wide search of the area.
Investigators looked into claims a friend of the family,
