Praia do Guincho
Wind-battered Atlantic surf beach feeding a migrating dune field inside a coastal natural park.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Praia do Guincho, on the Atlantic edge of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, follows a team of scientists who spent the early two-thousands walking a dune with satellite receivers, trying to measure a hill that would not stay put. It touches the north wind that shapes this coast and the neighbouring beach of Cresmina. Best heard facing the wind, with the dunes at your back.
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