Costa de Caparica, 2008

The presence of the sea, being the main factor of attraction of people to this village, was also a recurrent source of destruction.The lands occupied during the summer years, when the tides are not so powerful, became a place of permanent settlement. This was the case of the campings that appeared in the end of […]

Costa de Caparica, circa 2008

The set of images that we are going to publish in the next few days were captured around October 2008. It was the last summer before the urban intervention program called Polis. This area had seen a persistent increase in the influx of beach bathers in the last forty years from around the Lisbon area. […]