Why Comporta?

Sometimes you find such a lovely place that you do not want to tell anybody else about it: this is the case here. If only we were not in the business of hospitality, we might be able to keep this secret to ourselves. Comporta is ideally situated one hour's drive from Lisbon’s airport. It is one of a series of rural villages bordering the Atlantic coast on one of its most pristine and unpopulated stretches of beach and is a secondary home to many of Portugal and Europe's leading families.
The cream of European society decamps here because it is a resort that is actually not a resort. You come here to not be seen, not be bothered, and not to feel on display to hoards of tourists. You come here to live in beautiful homes, amidst the coastal forest of the Alentejo region, with little traffic and some lovely spots to eat, drink, and a lot to sunbathe.
Weekends can be crowded on the Beach but for the rest of the time, you will find a few odd families dividing up almost 60 kilometers of sand. The dunes are protected and the beaches stretch as far as the eye can see.

Those who come to Comporta should have the idea of absolute relaxation in mind. There is little in the way of night-clubbing or other major resort attractions, but there is an abundance of space and pristine beauty difficult to imagine in an overcrowded and overexploited continent like Europe.