At first glance, the small village of Comporta in Portugal does not look like much:simple white houses with tiled roofs, a town center sleeping under the midday sun, farmers with weathered faces like rare passers-by... This first impression passed, you won't want to leave this rustic and wild refuge! La Herdade da Comporta designates a coastal nature reserve of 12,500 hectares, made up of dunes, rice fields and fragrant pine forests dotted with cacti. It even has its fishing village on stilts, Porto Palafitico, which cultivates a certain resemblance to Vietnam.
The old fishermen's huts have been restored in a refined style by modern Robinsons:Christian Louboutin, Philippe Starck, the decorator Jacques Grange, the artists Anselm Kiefer and Jason Martin... You can rent your own (comportahomepage.pt, casasnaareia.com, cabanasnorio.com, airbnb.fr) or stay in those of the Sublime Comporta hotel (from €195 per night), where Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart slept last summer, surrounded by cork oaks.
The ribbon of sand stretches for tens of kilometers, without a construction. You think you are alone in the world, facing the ocean, America on the other side of the Atlantic. Well, a descendant of Christopher Columbus, José Ribeira (with whom Charlotte Casiraghi rides when she stays in Comporta!), offers horseback riding (cavalosnaareia.com). The ride takes on the dunes and then descends towards the sea, where you gallop along the rollers.
