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Amorielli Vol. 2 · No. 05 · May 2026 Portfolio p. 23

Portfolio · Vol. 2 · No. 05 · May 2026

Comporta in pictures

4 photographs from the cover story, Where to Stay in Comporta, printed large. Photographs by augustoptm, NickieB.Portugal, Sara Jaques, Diego Delso, from Wikimedia Commons under the licences credited on each image.

A wide Atlantic beach at Comporta backed by low sand dunes and pine under an open sky — The Comporta coast is a long, low line of Atlantic beach, dune, and pine, kept deliberately free of high-rise building.

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A field of ripening golden rice at Alcácer do Sal, with a green verge in front and a steel railway bridge on the horizon under a cloudy sky — Rice ripening in the fields at Alcácer do Sal, inland from Comporta, in October 2014.

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Painted wooden boats and a red and blue plank walkway on stilts at the Carrasqueira palafitte pier, with huts on poles over the tidal mud — The palafitte pier at Carrasqueira: wooden walkways on stilts, still used by the village's shellfish fishermen.

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A wide sandy beach on the Comporta coast with a lifeguard post, beach umbrellas and a few people near the surf — Praia da Comporta. The beach runs almost unbroken down this coast, from the Troia peninsula in the north past Comporta and Carvalhal.

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