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With its warm climate in the summer and its mild climate in the winter, the southern part of Portugal, including Comporta, offers locals and visitors the chance to enjoy the outdoors overlooking the waves of the Atlantic Ocean. The village of Comporta lies on Portugal's west coast, an hour south of the capital, Lisbon.
It's somewhat sheltered from the Atlantic, whose waves and gales can be formidable to the occasionally windswept shores, by the headland of dunes. In this relative shelter and with the Sado river's debouching estuaries, greenery and life abound providing the perfect climate for the rice paddies to flourish.
Here’s what you need to know about Comporta - one of our favourite luxury holiday destinations: it is certainly an up-and-coming star of the European holiday scene. Its rustic and laidback atmosphere is reminiscent of the nostalgic stories of barefooted St Tropez in its earlier years and bohemian Ibiza before its millionaire-playground days. But it is at once both reminiscent and completely unlike any of these established beach holiday destinations that draw crowds year in and year out.
Agriculture and fishing are the heartbeat and history of this Portuguese idyll. These trades have moulded the landscape, set the motions and pace of life: rice paddies and wildflowers create a blissful union of uniformity and chaos; along the coast, horseshoes of sandy beaches are carved, and sometimes battered, by a barrage of blue waves perfect for surfers.
Comporta's architecture, too, has been preserved and shaped by the area's heritage. A unique Comporta experience will involve beach cabanas and surf shacks along beautiful stretches of coastline and behind the shielding embrace of dunes; buildings weaved together from bleached driftwood collected and dried on close-by beaches, sturdy pines hewed from neighbouring forests, and thatch gathered from nearby fields.
Explore our favourite luxury holiday homes in Comporta, Portugal to springboard your next seaside trip, whether your intentions are surfing or relaxing, exploring or feasting.
Nestled in nature
Villa Caetana
This strikingly modern villa appears, apparition-like, from the rugged landscape. It is a neat villa perched atop a chaotic carpet of wild grasses; its perfect white walls contrast sharply against the shady pines that shoot up from the forest floor. While the juxtaposing effects of nature and modernity are starkly apparent, there is also harmony in the lineal design of the villa: its straight lines mimic the direct uprightness of the surrounding trees and the horizons of gentle rises and flat ground.
It is difficult not to feel at one with nature in Villa Caetana. The minimalistic interior is complemented by large windows, giving the impression that the most prominent decor is the woodland nature reserve that this villa is buried in the heart of. The pool feels more like a life source, a watering hole hidden in a quiet, untouched part of the forest, for the reserve's inhabitants than it does a recreational swimming facility for fortunate guests.
Villa Monte
Villa Monte is similarly immersed in the beauty of Comporta's wondrous and raw nature. It seamlessly slots into the landscape, with the towering trees seemingly mirrored by the building's facade, which is almost wholly wrapped with wooden slats. The large deck that encompasses the villa gives all-round access to the natural beauty on its doorstep. The orchestra of cicadas are a constant reminder of the connection this villa has with the outdoors.
Go for a walk beneath the verdant treetops that tower brightly overhead, like nature's streetlamps, before returning for a cooling dip in the pool. The rustic decor - wooden tables and wicker chairs on the deck - makes for a great ambience to have an evening drink and recline into the quietude of Comporta's countryside. This villa is surrounded only by fields and trees. When the sun seeps through the slatted windows and awnings it gives the impression of sunlight landing in slices on forest floors, cut by the branches and pine needles of trees overhead.
villas by the beach
Villa Sable
A description of Comporta's seaside could easily be supplanted and used to describe Villa Sable. Every aspect of this quaint villa is very particularly, yet effortlessly, pieced together to create a seaside aura: the blue borders around each window and entrance are set against the white background in the same way that the sea ebbs and flows against the white sand of the beaches; the pool sits amongst the sand with wooden walkways leading to it, like a driftwood-strewn beach. The thatched roof adds to the charmingly simplistic fishing-shack vibe of this surprisingly elegant seaside villa.
There is plenty of outdoor space: the verandah for meals, the terrace for drinks or soaking up the sun, and the cushioned pool hut for simply relaxing by the shimmering pool. Privacy is afforded by the ring fence of foliage that makes up the surrounding seaside nature reserve, as it wraps itself warmly around the property. Flit between the pool and the sea, which is but a walking distance away.
Casa Citronella
Donning your straw hat, amble, barefooted, down the private sand path that wends through green foliage until it reaches the beach. Race friends or family into the sea, or saunter along the soft sand for a quiet morning walk. Casa Citronella is a quintessentially calming seaside hangout, where an undeniable feeling of freedom will help you while away the sunny days along the Atlantic coastline of Portugal. The house gazes over a lush arrangement of rice paddies in one direction, with shelter provided by the dunes in the other.
The house is airy and bright: its white walls and high white wooden ceilings give the house a much lighter and more open atmosphere. Seashells, straw roofs, sand-coloured floor surfaces, and seaside trinkets complete the 'surfer's getaway' vibe of this house. Watch the sun sink over the green fields beneath the straw of the outhouse, as the fire pit begins to replace the sun's warmth.
Discover all of Comporta villas here to make the best of your luxury Portugal holidays. There is plenty of exploration to be had on your Comporta holidays.
