Azenhas do Mar
Clifftop village of whitewashed houses above a tide-filled ocean pool and sand-rooted wine vineyards.
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This guide to Azenhas do Mar, the clifftop village on the Sintra coast, starts with a low vine stump in the sand and the men who dug down to plant it. It follows a tiny insect that swept through Europe's vineyards in the late nineteenth century, and a wine house founded here around nineteen hundred that shipped its bottles across the ocean. Best heard from the cliff edge, looking down at the houses stacked above the sea.
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