“Praia da Adraga beach walking tour 4K. Lisbon Portugal 2022” was recorded in April of 2022.

Praia da Adraga is a beach located in the municipality of Sintra, close to Colares and Almoçageme, in Portugal, located in the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park.
Access to the beach is from Almoçageme, through a winding road, which goes down until revealing the sand and the sea, which are hidden between cliffs and rocks rising in the clear blue of the salt water.
Scattered along the beach, there are several dark rocks, which give it a personality of its own, combining the mountain landscape with the beach landscape.
It has a car park, which may prove to be insufficient during the summer, given the high number of tourists that flock there. In the same place, there are also a restaurant and public toilets.
In 2003, Praia da Adraga was considered, by the British newspaper The Sunday Times, one of the 20 best European beaches, in the opinion of its journalists and readers.
Nudism is usual on the north side of the beach.
The cliffs of this beach are mainly made up of Upper Jurassic limestone layers, which are about 150 million years old, although in the far north the first levels of the Cretaceous are visible. All these layers of sedimentary rocks were rotated by the rise of the eruptive massif of the Sintra mountain range, around 80 million years ago. Along the cliff, several faults and eruptive veins can be observed.
At the southern end of the beach, and accessible only during low tide, is the main entrance to a deep cave dug by the erosive action of the sea on a fault that cuts through the limestone formations of the cliff. The numerous rocks isolated by the sea, also prove a rapid erosion of the coast.
Along the pedestrian path that follows the top of the cliffs to the south of the beach, you can also visit Fojo da Adraga, resulting from the dismantling of volcanic rocks intruded into the limestone mass, and Pedra de Alvidrar, corresponding to a layer of crystalline limestone from the Jurassic that was almost vertical, pushed and superheated by the rise of the Sintra eruptive massif. Under the Pedra de Alvidrar, a system of open caves develops along the steeply sloping layers.

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