An endless coastline (943 km)

352 EU Blue Flag beaches
Voted best beach destination in the world for two consecutive years. (WTA, 2020)
3rd most ‘green’ country in the world (GCI 2019) and European Green Capital 2020.
1 National Park, 14 Natural Parks and 10 Nature Reserves (Source: ICNF)
Portuguese Beaches  - Vanguard Properties

A coast so big that you’ll loose sight

Portugal means beach A long coast (943 km of coastline), where all the beaches have fine white sand, a long summer, and many hours of sunshine throughout the entire year make Portugal the natural holiday destination choice. It is not by chance that in 2020 the Algarve was elected the ‘Best Beach Destination in the World’ for the second year running. This award presented by the World Travel Awards is an annual event which highlights the best examples in the tourism and travel industry categories. Portugal’s natural beauty is not only immense, but extraordinarily diversified. You can pass through dense forests, valleys, river beaches with waterfalls hidden in the ‘serras’ and all of this in a short space of time on a journey full of constant surprises. You come across unspoilt beauty spread out across the country, populated by a wide variety of species of flora and fauna where Man and Nature live in perfect harmony. Protected to maintain their biodiversity, many areas are classified as Parks and Nature Reserves.

Some of these beaches are:

Carvalhal

Comporta

Pego

Ancão

Vale de Lobo

Garrão

Quinta do Lago

 

Some parks and nature reserves are:

Peneda-Gerês National Park, the only Natural Park classifed as such.

Arrábida Natural Park

Serra da Estrela Natural Park

Sintra-Cascais Natural Park

Tejo Natural Park

South-West Alentejo and Costa Vicentina Natural Park

Berlengas Natural Reserve

Tejo Estuary Natural Reserve