Praia de São Julião
Cliff-backed Atlantic surf beach at a stream mouth, with a clifftop hermit chapel to the north.
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This guide to Praia de São Julião, on the coast north of Sintra, turns on fifteen eighty-five and a stonemason's son from the Azores living as a hermit in a cave above this beach, and the local peasants who began to wonder who he really was. It reaches back to King Sebastian's disappearance in Morocco and the Spanish king who took Portugal's throne after him. Best heard at the water's edge, facing north toward the clifftop chapel.
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