Cascais
Seaside fishing town turned resort, with a working beach, old-town lanes and a sheltered bay.
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This guide to Cascais follows the town's fishing families on one Sunday in late summer, when saints leave the parish church and head for the water. It touches the prayers said for those the sea has kept, a sixteenth-century promise made by Lisbon's councillors, and a pilgrimage road older than the procession that now uses it. Best heard looking down over Fishermen's Beach.
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