A summer scene is ramping up on Portugal’s West Coast, as artists, A-listers and surfers revel in the beach-shack vibe of Comporta.

Rice farmers have been in Comporta since the beginning of time, as have the fishermen and salt makers. They have shaped the look of the landscape in this part of Portugal, dotted with cork oaks, covered with glowing red poppies and yellow carpets of wildflowers, and conserved the unique architecture, small, low-built, thatched cabanas, hooped with tightly packed grasses from the riverbanks and beams of wood from the pine forests. by Condé Nast Traveller