Matosinhos Beach

This guide to Matosinhos Beach in Porto opens with an odd fact: the sand beneath you formed almost by accident, a side effect of a nineteenth-century harbor project rather than nature. It traces the neighborhood's long run as a sardine port, and turns to the giant red net sculpture swaying over the plaza behind you, following who built it and why it echoes the fishing lines that once fed this town. Listen for how the color of its poles ties back to Matosinhos's industrial waterfront.