A long beach of white sand and dunes reached by a wooden boardwalk, with a few relaxed beach restaurants.

A wide, quiet beach south of Comporta, backed by pine woods and dunes.

Flat green fields along the Sado, flooded in spring and golden in late summer, where storks, herons and egrets feed.

A fishermen's pier of wooden stilts and crooked walkways over the estuary, one of the most photographed spots on the coast at sunset.

Salt marshes, salt pans and channels home to flamingos and to a resident group of bottlenose dolphins.

A small village of low white houses, with design shops, galleries and restaurants around the old rice warehouses.