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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, Kent Wang from London, Paulo Valdivieso from Lisboa, Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, 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 broad cork oak standing alone in the dry grassland of the Alentejo countryside inland from Comporta. — The cork-oak country of the Alentejo — the montado you drive through to reach the coast.

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The wooden palafitte pier at Carrasqueira, its stilted walkways running out over the mud of the Sado estuary — The palafitte pier at Carrasqueira: wooden walkways on stilts, still used by the village's shellfish fishermen.

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The wide, empty Atlantic beach at Praia da Comporta, backed by low dunes and pine. — The beach runs almost unbroken down this coast — dune, low pine, and open Atlantic, and very little else.

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