Magoito beach
Wild Atlantic beach below steep cliffs, beside a fossil sand dune about ten thousand years old.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Magoito beach on the Sintra coast starts beside the access ramp, at a pale bank of stone that is neither quite sand nor quite rock, and asks how long a rock really takes to make. It reads the slanting stripes in the stone for the winds of ten thousand years ago. Then it turns to the winter of twenty twenty-six, when storms came to this stretch of shoreline. Best heard standing at the foot of the ramp, facing the dune.
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