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Praia do Barril

Island beach, anchor cemetery · Tavira (Algarve)

Praia do Barril, Portugal — beach
Photo: Carlos Pinto from Porto, Portugal · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

On Tavira’s barrier island, Barril was a tuna-fishing hamlet — its cemetery of anchors marks the fleet’s end. A miniature train crosses the lagoon to reach it, or walk the boardwalk from Pedras d’El Rei.

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