Central Portugal beaches map

A rural river beach on the River Paiva in Castro Daire municipality, with calm water surrounded by greenery.

A small beach on the edge of the Ria de Aveiro, by the EN 327 road, with fine sand, calm lagoon water and muddy bottoms.

An open-sea beach with no direct urban influence, with a very long stretch of sand framed by pine forest and a…

A bathing area upstream of the village of Ucha, parish of Figueiredo de Alva (São Pedro do Sul), where the River…

A river beach on the River Teixeira, a tributary of the Vouga, on the waters of the Ribeiradio reservoir, about 3 km…

A river beach on the River Vouga at Trabulo, among pine woods between the parishes of Ferreira de Aves and Romãs…

Praia da Torreira sits on the outer edge of the Ria de Aveiro, on a spit of land that separates the lagoon from the…

An estuary beach on the shore of the Ria de Aveiro, south of Torreira by the EN 327 road, with calm lagoon water and…

An estuary beach of fine sand on the Murtosa channel of the Ria de Aveiro, west of the Bico quays, once one of the main…

A river beach on the left bank of the Vouga, in a green valley, where the swimming area is formed by the Grela weir at…

A wide, almost wild beach at the southern tip of the strip of land that separates the Ria de Aveiro from the sea…

A river beach on the Dão, between the Vais weir and the Roman bridge, in the parish of Castelo de Penalva, Penalva do…

Praia da Barra sits at the mouth of the Ria de Aveiro, next to the channel that connects the lagoon to the Atlantic…

Praia da Costa Nova is inseparable from the palheiros — the wooden houses with colourful vertical stripes that line the…

A river beach on the right bank of the Mondego, by the Juncais bridge in Fornos de Algodres, with calm water and tree…

A river beach on the Águeda in the centre of the village of São João do Monte, on the western slope of the Caramulo…

Praia da Vagueira sits south of Aveiro, in a section of the Beira Litoral coast with long beaches and swell conditions…

A small beach in Vagos much sought after by surfers for its good sea conditions.

A wide beach a few kilometres south of Vagueira, between the lagoon and the ocean, sheltered by a long, high dune ridge.

A river beach on the Mondego in the village of Porto da Carne, near Vila Cortez do Mondego, in Guarda municipality, in…

A river beach on the right bank of the Mondego, downstream of the Caldeirão dam, in the Serra da Estrela Natural Park…

A river beach on the Caldeirão dam reservoir, fed by the Caldeirão stream, in Guarda municipality.

A bathing area on the Mondego next to the Quinta da Taberna picnic park, on the bank of a weir in Videmonte, within the…

A river beach on the Zêzere at Valhelhas, in the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, with wide lawns and natural shade on…

A near-natural open-sea beach away from built-up areas, with a long stretch of fine white sand and, inland, dunes, pine…

Praia de Mira is on the Mira coastline, with Lagoa de Mira as its immediate backdrop — a coastal lagoon separated from…

A river beach on the Zêzere in the Relva da Reboleira recreation complex at Sameiro (Manteigas), with a campsite and…

A beach on the Vale do Rossim reservoir, at around 1,437 metres, on the upper plateau of the Serra da Estrela, Gouveia…

A river beach on the Côa at Badamalos, with lawn and sand surrounded by shade trees, in a valley of gentle slopes and…

A leisure area on the Côa, known as the Vale das Éguas river beach or the Ínsua leisure area, surrounded by alders and…

A river beach on the bank of the Côa, about 500 metres from the village of Rapoula do Côa, with a sandy area and shade…

A beach on the Alfaiates reservoir, fed by the Alfaiates stream, a tributary of the Côa, with a wide expanse of water…

Urban river beach a short walk from the historic centre of Sabugal and its castle.

River beach on the left bank of the River Côa, about 1 km from the village of Quadrazais, at the foot of the Serra da…

A bathing area on the Alva river by the village of Sabugueiro, in the Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Seia municipality.

A bathing area on the Alva river in the Desterro woods, upstream of the Nossa Senhora do Desterro reservoir, in the…

A river beach on the Caniça stream, a tributary of the Alva, at about 700 metres on the south-western slope of the…

Bathing area on the left bank of the River Alva, by the village of Vila Cova à Coelheira, on the edge of the Serra da…

River beach on the River Alva in the village of Sandomil, on the south-western slope of the Serra da Estrela.

River beach on the Loriga stream, a tributary of the Alva, at about 800 m altitude in a glacial valley of the Serra da…

Bathing area on the right bank of the Alvoco stream, a tributary of the Alva, at Vasco Esteves de Baixo, inside the…

Bathing area on the Aguieira reservoir on the River Mondego, about 2 km downstream of the mouth of the River Dão, in…

Praia do Palheirão lies about 9 km north of Praia da Tocha, on an exposed stretch of Atlantic coast with an energetic…

Oval natural pool, up to about 1.2 m deep, set within the Sete Fontes leisure park in the parish of Ourentã.

Bathing pool in the village of Olhos da Fervença, in the parish of Cadima, fed largely by the springs that supply water…

Praia da Tocha is on the Cantanhede coastline, between Aveiro and Figueira da Foz, in a zone where the coastal pine…

Natural pool in the centre of the village of Ançã, fed by the cold flow of the Ançã spring and stream, surrounded by…

River beach on the River Alva, within the Albino Mendes da Silva Foundation complex, which occupies the buildings of an…

River beach on the River Alva, which makes an S-shaped bend here, with a wide stretch of sand on the right bank and…

River beach on the right bank of the Alvoco stream, next to a medieval bridge and with views of the Serra da Estrela.

River beach where the River Alva meets the Pomares stream, beside the village of Avô; the two watercourses surround the…

River beach on the River Alva, a tributary of the Mondego, between the villages of Hombres and Laborins.

River beach on the right bank of the River Alva, near its mouth and the village of São Pedro de Alva, in a wooded area…

River beach on the left bank of the River Mondego, about 1.5 km from Penacova, in a green setting next to a campsite.

Bathing area on the Meimoa reservoir, a dam built in the late 1970s on the Meimoa stream, on land in the parish of…

River beach right in the village of Unhais da Serra, on the Paul stream, with large lawns and bathing facilities…

Bathing area on the right bank of the River Alva at Barril de Alva.

River beach in the village of Pomares, next to an 18th-century bridge and with views of the Serra do Açor.

River beach on the River Alva in the village of Côja, near its confluence with the Mata stream.

River beach on the left bank of the River Alva, beside a weir, about 500 m from the village of Secarias and 3.5 km from…

Bathing area where the Piódão and Chãs d'Égua streams meet, in the Serra do Açor, near the village of Chãs d'Égua and…

Bathing area on the River Alva, at the edge of Secarias, in a natural setting with banks lined with poplars and alders.

River beach in the heart of the historic village of Piódão, on a slope of the Serra do Açor, formed by a small dam on…

River beach in the centre of the schist village of Benfeita, where the Mata and Carcavão streams meet, near Fraga da…

Bathing area in the village of Folques, about 5 km from Arganil, on a pool created by a weir on the Aveleira stream.

River beach on the right bank of the River Alva, in the parish of Mouronho, upgraded to improve accessibility: it has…

River beach on the left bank of the River Mondego, in Torres do Mondego, about 15 km from Coimbra, among forested…

River beach on the sandy right bank of the River Mondego, at Portela, between the Rainha Santa Isabel and Portela…

Bathing area on the Ereira creek (esteiro), linked to the River Mondego, beside the village of the same name, in a…

Ocean beach north of Figueira da Foz, with a seafront of about 1,340 m of fine white sand backed by vegetated dunes.

Praia da Murtinheira sits north of Figueira da Foz, in a section of the Aveiro coast where beaches follow one another…

This beach lies west of Buarcos, beside Cabo Mondego, the headland where the Serra da Boa Viagem meets the sea.

Urban beach north of the mouth of the River Mondego, on the stretch of coast running west from Buarcos towards Cabo…

Praia de Buarcos lies north of Figueira da Foz, next to the fishing quarter of the same name — one of the oldest…

Praia da Figueira da Foz is one of the great urban beaches of the Portuguese Atlantic coast — an extensive sandy…

Praia do Forte is on the north bank of the Mondego estuary, at the southern end of Figueira da Foz's great beach.

Cabedelinho beach is on the south bank of the Mondego estuary, in São Pedro (Gala), facing Figueira da Foz and north of…

Beach just south of the mouth of the River Mondego, beside the river channel and facing the town of Figueira da Foz…

A stretch of sand south of the Mondego river mouth that includes the Cabedelo, a surf spot popular with local surfers…

A beach next to the small village of Costa de Lavos, south of Figueira da Foz, with its sand surrounded by dunes.

The beach of the fishing village of Leirosa, south of Figueira da Foz and beyond Costa de Lavos, from which it is…

River beach at the entrance to Serpins, on the River Ceira, with a large lawn and bathing either in the river or in a…

River beach on the River Ceira, by Casal de Ermio, about six kilometres from Lousã, in a rural landscape.

River beach on the São João stream in the Serra da Lousã, at the spot known as 'Burgo', two kilometres from the town…

River beach on the banks of the River Ceira, in Vila Nova do Ceira, with a large lawn.

River beach in the town of Góis, on the banks of the River Ceira between the Açor and Lousã ranges, with a large lawn…

Bathing area by the old bridge in the village of Cabreira, on the River Ceira, a mountain river that rises in the Serra…

River beach on the left bank of the River Sótão, a narrow mid-mountain river formed by the Pena and Mouro streams, with…

Bathing area by the bridge in the village of Colmeal, on the River Ceira, a mountain river that rises in the Serra do…

River beach in the village of Alvares, with a large lawn on the right bank of the Sinhel stream, a tributary of the…

River beach at the entrance to the historic village of Castelo Novo, on the Alpreade stream, which gave the village its…

Bathing area on the Santa Luzia dam reservoir, between large rock outcrops near the dam wall, with a floating pool.

River beach in the centre of the mountain village of Pessegueiro, on the Pessegueiro stream and surrounded by forest.

River beach in the centre of the town of Pampilhosa da Serra, on the river Unhais, formed by a weir by the bridge and…

River beach on the banks of the river Zêzere, next to the schist village of Janeiro de Baixo, with a long stretch of…

River beach in the Serra do Espinhal at Louçainha, created from dammed pools on the river Dueça, in a valley of steep…

River beach on the bank of the Pera stream, in a forested area of the Serra da Lousã.

A very long beach stretching as far as the eye can see along the Mata Nacional do Urso protected forest, in the parish…

River beach near the village of Cambas, on the river Zêzere in the Cabril reservoir area, with a large, densely wooded…

River beach on the river Zêzere, below the schist village of Álvaro, with a wide expanse of water in a secluded spot.

River beach on the banks of the Sertã stream, near Oleiros, in a green setting with lawns and plenty of shade.

Small river beach on the Mega stream, next to the village of Mega Fundeira, with a bathing area and sunbathing lawn.

River beach on the Pera stream at the entrance to the schist village of Mosteiro, opened in 2005, with large green…

Bathing area on the Cabril reservoir, an artificial lake fed by the Zêzere and Unhais rivers, next to a campsite.

River beach on the stream that runs through the village of Almaceda, also known as Poço do Lagar, where the water keeps…

River beach in the village of Sesmo, near Sarzedas, formed by a weir on the left bank of the Alvito stream, a tributary…

Bathing area on a freshwater lagoon about 500 metres long, between the Mata do Urso and Mata do Pedrógão forests, north…

Praia do Pedrógão is on the Leiria coastline, between Vieira de Leiria and Figueira da Foz, in a stretch of open…

Pedrógão Sul is the bathing area south of Pedrógão beach, in Leiria municipality, with a frontage of about 300 metres.

River beach at Ana de Aviz, near Figueiró dos Vinhos, on the grassy banks of the river Boleo.

River beach on the Alge stream, between two tall rock cliffs, about a 15-minute walk from the schist village of Casal…

River beach on the Sertã stream, by the Troviscal bridge, about 1.5 km from the village and away from built-up areas, a…

River beach in the centre of the town of Sertã, on the Sertã stream, part of a large leisure and sports area next to…

Bathing area created on the Tamolha stream, about 2 km from Várzea dos Cavaleiros, using a weir and restored schist…

River beach created by restoring an irrigation weir on the Isna stream, next to the village of Marmeleiro, surrounded…

Praia da Vieira de Leiria is on the Marinha Grande coastline, in a zone where the Leiria pine forest — one of the…

A long sandy beach just north of São Pedro de Moel, backed by vegetated dunes.

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River beach at the foot of the Serra de Alvéolos, where the Isna stream winds to form a long stretch of water (about 1…

River beach in a small valley on the Fróia stream, near Sobreira Formosa.

River beach next to the village of the same name, on the Isna stream, with a weir built in several tiers of different…

Bathing area in the village of Foz do Cobrão, in the Ocreza valley, where a stretch of about 120 metres of the Cobrão…

River beach on the Isna stream, away from any village, about 13 km from Vila de Rei in the parish of São João do Peso.

Beach on the Castelo de Bode reservoir, in a bay surrounded by hills covered in maritime pine and strawberry trees…

River beach on the Isna stream, by the bridge over the Bostelim stream and near the hamlet of Cabeça do Poço, between…

River beach on the shores of the Castelo de Bode reservoir, next to the village of Zaboeira, surrounded by pine-covered…

River beach on the River Nabão, next to the large spring that feeds it, in the parish of Formigais, where the…

River beach in a small valley on the Isna stream, about five minutes from Cardigos, next to the Vergancinho weir.

River beach in the village of Carvoeiro itself, about 25 minutes from Mação, on a broad stretch of water surrounded by…

Beach on the Castelo de Bode reservoir, also known as Praia Fluvial da Castanheira, set in woodland.

Beach on the Castelo de Bode reservoir, near the border with the municipality of Tomar, one of the few on the reservoir…

River beach on the Codes stream, which cuts through a rocky massif via a natural passage in the rock, forming small…

The big-wave beach — where Garrett McNamara surfed the then-world record wave in 2011 and where the record has since…

Praia da Nazaré has two distinct faces: the town beach, long and lively, with the seafront of one of Portugal's…

Beach on the Castelo de Bode reservoir, near the village of Montes, in woodland away from built-up areas.

Bathing spot on the Castelo de Bode reservoir, about 15 km from Tomar, in the parish of Serra, in woodland with shade…

River beach next to the village of Cabeça Ruiva, in the parish of Fontes, on the Castelo de Bode reservoir.

A river beach on the Castelo de Bode reservoir, next to the village of Aldeia do Mato, set among pine woods.

A river beach on the left bank of the River Zêzere, beside the town of Constância, with more than 3,500 m² of sand.

A bathing area beside the Olhos d'Água spring of the River Alviela, at Louriceira, one of the most important karst…

The ocean-facing beach at Foz do Arelho, next to where the Óbidos Lagoon meets the sea; the beach on the lagoon side…

The beach on the Óbidos Lagoon side, by the inlet that connects the lagoon to the sea at Foz do Arelho.