Ribeira Beach - Cascais

Ribeira beach is closest and easily accessible from the centre of the old part of Cascais town. Also known as Fishermen’s beach it is, as you would imagine, a popular beach in the summer. The esplenade it backs on to is often lined with craft stalls selling everything from local pottery to erm, African carved giraffes!

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Cascais travel guide »

At the end of one of the suburban train lines out of the capital lies Cascais. This once tiny fishing village has grown in the last century to become the elegant beach town that it is today. Visitors are no stranger to Cascais, having attracted various monarchs over the ages, a summer-dwelling artistic community in the thirties and continued to charm people both Portuguese and foreign ever since…