Praia da Adraga
Cliff-framed Atlantic cove of golden sand, sea caves and a sheer rock once descended on a dare.
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This guide to Praia da Adraga, on the wild Atlantic coast below Sintra, turns on the great dark rock at the southern end of the beach and the young men who treated it as a test of nerve. It follows an English traveller in seventeen eighty-seven who walked to its edge with a crowd of village boys at his heels, and it reaches back to a darker Roman legend about the same drop. Best heard standing on the sand facing the southern cliffs.
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