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Food, culture + local life beyond the beach.
The city you didn’t know was happening.
📍Costa da Caparica + around

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Caparica is not a beach with a city behind it. It's a city with a beach in front of it, and it's just starting to know it.

We started this account to follow that shift. The new openings, the people making things happen, the corners visitors keep walking past, the food, the culture, the community. Less postcard, more dispatch.

Follow along. There's a lot to show you.

📍 Costa da Caparica

#costadacaparica #caparica #margemsul #portugal #urbanphotography taken in Costa De Caparica, Setubal, Portugal by @thecaparica

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Six plans, moving through different rhythms, different crowds and different corners of the coast. The best of what’s happening here across three days.

Times, locations and access details are inside.
16–18 OCTOBER

#CostaDaCaparica #Caparica #whattodoinlisbon #MargemSul #fimdesemanalisboa

CHÁPARICA
After conquering many places in Lisbon, TEA WEEK now REACHES THE OCEAN.

For its Caparica stop, @aroeira.wellness and @atecha.co bring BodyListening, a Cha Dao tea ceremony and sound meditation to Praia da Piscina.

The practices end at 11:30. Everyone is welcome to stay until 13:00 for lunch, conversation and a little more time by the sea.

FRI 16 · 09:30–13:00
At @praia_piscina_lisboa · FONTE DA TELHA
€15 · SOLD OUT · WAITLIST OPEN

NUMA COLLECTIVE × ZIGGY

THE BODY FEELS. THE MIND SWITCHES OFF.

That is @numa.collective.pt ’s own description of what happens at its parties. Born in Setúbal, the electronic music collective leans into underground sounds and the physical side of the dance floor — music you feel before you think about it.

For this one-off open air, they join @ziggy.caparica , tucked inside the Parque Urbano da Costa da Caparica, one of Caparica’s most beautiful green spaces.

Six DJs play from 17:00 until 02:00, with a chill-out zone, art to see and buy, and food throughout.

@cuca_music · @dede__d13 · @funkerwell
@mxng.ident · @rev.raffa · RUI ROSS

SAT 17 · 17:00–02:00
ZIGGY · PARQUE URBANO DA COSTA DA CAPARICA

ASCC CAPARICA POWER
THE LAST POINTS ARE IN THE WATER.

Now in its 13th edition, @ascc_caparica ’s circuit brings younger generations and experienced surfers into the same heats at Praia do Marcelino.

This is the third and final stage of 2026. Across Open, Women’s, Under-21 and Under-16, the weekend will decide the circuit champions and the rankings that lead to the Caparica Power Special Event, where some of the leading national and European surfers join the competition.

SAT 17 + SUN 18
@marcelinobeachclub · COSTA DA CAPARICA

@ascc.formacao
@jfcostacaparica
@camara_municipal_almada
@fps_oficial

CAMINHADA OUTUBRO ROSA

On Sunday morning, a solidarity walk leaves Parque Urbano and follows the full length of the Paredão da Costa in s taken in Costa da Caparica by @thecaparica

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WhatThere’s a whole lot more to know around here than you might think.

The Caparica is an independent publication about food, culture and local life. We’re here all year, getting to know the places in and around Caparica before sending you their way. And we’re as interested in why artists gather in a shop as we are in what’s for lunch.

Follow @thecaparica for the right tips.

#costadacaparica #caparica #margemsul #lisbonevents #whattodotoday taken in Costa De Caparica, Setubal, Portugal by @thecaparica

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For a burger joint called @dallas.burgerjoint , the route to Caparica needs a little explaining.

Belgian founders Pierre d’Andrimont and Margaux Marcy returned from New York with a particular appetite for its burger joints. Back in Portugal, they began working out how to recreate that experience.

In 2019, the first Dallas opened beside Lisbon’s Pink Street. That is where the burger in our reel began making its name.

Other addresses followed, including Shoreditch, Dallas’s first location outside Portugal. But the spaces have taken different forms along the way. In Anjos, the emphasis was on a small, takeaway-focused joint. The idea has been to keep Dallas recognisable while allowing each place to respond to its neighbourhood.

In Caparica, we think they got that right.

Inside, you recognise the old-school American burger joint, interpreted with a more contemporary look. Outside, the terrace changes the pace of the meal. It is somewhere we would happily leave more time for lunch, rather than fit it between everything else on the agenda.

That is what we mean when we say Caparica sets the tone. The terrace gives the place a relationship with the afternoon happening around it. Dallas feels comfortable here.

We tried the Italian Summer and the Chipotle. The Italian Summer puts grilled tomato and courgette alongside Grana Padano, rocket and basil mayo, an unusual combination that makes a welcome change from the familiar burger order. The Chipotle brings cheddar, caramelised onions, jalapeños and chipotle sauce, with the intense flavour we would come back for.

Avenida General Humberto Delgado, 13B
Costa da Caparica

#whattodoinlisbon #whattodotoday #lisbonguide #costadacaparica #burger taken in Costa da Caparica by @thecaparica

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We’re The Caparica, an independent publication about life in and around Caparica. We find experiences worth your time, get to know the people behind them, and tell the stories that make you look a little closer.

Food, culture, everyday rituals and reasons to go out, long after summer. For those who live here and those who want to know it better.

Places worth going. Stories worth knowing.

Follow @thecaparica to keep up. taken in Costa da Caparica by @thecaparica

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THIS IS THE CAPARICA WE WANT YOU TO MEET.
This weekend makes it particularly clear why The Caparica exists: to show how much is happening around here beyond the beach towel, from art to food.

Photography, graffiti, artists making things in front of you. A concert in a church, pop-up kitchens and creatives coming together from different places.

Five plans that say something about this place
9–11 OCTOBER

NUUA has brought together so many interesting people for this Sunday that it’s hard to fit it all into a few words. Artists, designers, food and sport share the sand for an easy Sunday with plenty of surprises. The pleasure is in moving between them.

The full programme is at @nuua_beach . Our first stops? @lilli_marlit live painting, @fetosz ’s and @surinder_angelo & @divenitto playing live. Leave room for a few discoveries of your own.

Sunday 11 October · 10:00–22:00
Music programme · 12:00–22:00

NUUA · Praia da Cornélia
Free entry · No reservations

Follow the artists and makers:

Live painting · @maryceptual_art & @lilli_marlit
Flash tattoos · nino.tattooink
Face painting & festival makeup · @marta.spereira
Fashion · @twolines_family , @thewet.patch , @kohan_with_love & @borboleta_te
Crochet · @h.art.croche & @baraie_
Graffiti · @fetosz

FLOW — WRONG ALTITUDE. RIGHT PLACE.

@flow.art.ink opens its doors for a cosy evening around @phil.bucher ’s photography.

That alone would be a reason to stop by, but @_danymal takes over the kitchen and @dedygram warms the room with his soundtrack.

Add drinks and flash tattoos, and you have a way into a creative corner of Caparica you might not have met yet.

Friday 9 October · 17:00–21:00

FLOW ART INK
Praça Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes 62B, Costa da Caparica
Free entry

SONS DE OUTONO — CONCERTO CAMPESTRE

Almada is officially a candidate for Portugal’s Capital of Culture in 2028, with the winner still to be chosen. And if October is the warm-up, Sons de Outono is setting the tone, bringing early music into heritage spaces across the region

This Saturday, follow it to Trafaria. Inside the Igreja de São Pedro, Concerto Campestre brings soprano Mariana Castello-Branco together with Baroque strings, oboe, recorder taken in Costa da Caparica by @thecaparica

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When you live in Portugal, or spend any real time here, wine tastings quickly become part of the
basic rituals.

You expect vineyards, cellars and a few glasses at the end.

At Bacalhôa, that turns out to be only a third of the story.
The name is familiar from the bottles. What we did not expect was how little the visit initially feels like a winery. It begins at Palácio da Bacalhôa, whose history is centuries longer than the wine business built around it.

The walk moves through vineyards and gardens, past tiles that have survived generations and towards a lake house where the parties are very easy to picture.

For a palace, it feels strangely intimate. Majestic, yes, but also lived in. As if every person who passed through left an opinion behind, in the architecture, the books, the portraits or the objects that remained.

Of all those people, Orlena Scoville is the one who changes the direction of the story. She arrived in Azeitão in 1935 to study the tiles and found the palace in ruins. It had been
neglected for decades and was not even for sale. The architect helping her suggested she abandon the idea and buy a castle in Sintra instead.

She did not change her mind.

Orlena acquired the estate and spent the following decades restoring it. Her grandson would later help transform it into one of Portugal’s major wine producers.

So, by the time you return to the car and continue to Bacalhôa Adega Museu, the visit has already become much more than the tasting you thought you had booked.

Here, the story changes again. Historical rooms give way to contemporary art, working cellars and long rows of barrels. Only then does the wine fully enter the picture, ending with a tasting that includes Moscatel de Setúbal.

The wine is very good.

It is simply not the only part of the visit that stays with you.
What should have been a wine tasting became a deep dive into Portugal through one very surprising place.

All thirty minutes from Caparica.

#winetasting #whattodoinlisbon #costadacaparica #lisbonguide #winery taken in Palácio Da Bacalhôa by @thecaparica

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Yesterday, Irmão invited us to KÃYO on the Beach. For @kayo.events , it was a return to where the idea first began a few years ago.

Our soft spot for Irmão is probably no secret by now. October was still warm, the sunset seemed perfectly in time with the music, and the crowd gave us plenty to admire. The happiness and kindness we keep coming back for felt just as good with the bass turned up.

Thank you for having us. See you at @praia_irmao .

3 October · Praia do Castelo, Costa da Caparica

#whattodoinlisbon #costadacaparica #lisbonevents #lisbonlife #lisbonmusic taken in Praia Irmão - Place of Happiness by @thecaparica

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The first season of Quinta Mira Rio ends this weekend. And what a run.

Its founders told us the idea began with a simple observation: they could not find a place between Lisbon and Caparica “where different communities could really meet outside the codes of a club or a classic venue”. We know the gap they meant. Sometimes a towel on the sand isn’t enough, but a beach-club table asks for more effort and money than the day calls for. QMR offered a middle way: relaxed, with enough happening to give the afternoon a shape.

QMR spent the summer seeing how many turns one place could hold. Yoga in the morning, mates by the pool, an open-air film, a DJ set at sunset, a proper night out. By August, it was running four or five events a week. The range was always the plan. The team were just as deliberate about how it felt: “care in the curation, a mixed crowd and the feeling that nobody is out of place”. We felt that last part too.

They chose Caparica with both sides of the river in mind. People could finish a beach day here instead of heading home. People from Lisbon had a reason to cross the bridge, while those of us on this side could stay put for once.

When we asked what QMR would take with it if it moved, they answered: “the community, the curation and the spirit of mixing”. The view would be impossible to pack. The rest could travel.

Enjoy the last two days. Saturday 3 October turns the lawn over to Boa Viagem x Mira Rio, 14:00–23:00, with Budino, Dolce Vito, Mikolaï and Skinny Macho. Sunday 4 October is Burger Queens & Friends, celebrating three anniversaries with food pop-ups and music from Toribio, Megatronic and friends, 15:00–23:00. Sunday is free with RSVP.

#quintamirario #caparica #almada #margemsul #lisbonevents taken in Quinta Mira Río by @thecaparica

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WHO SAID CAPARICA WAS A SUMMER THING?

a very bombastic weekend is ahead.

This Saturday, @samgarrettmusic plays at @kala.caparica , a retreat hidden between forest and ocean that rarely appears on the public concert map. @mercado_atitudo begins a monthly Caparica chapter, while @quinta_mirario takes three days to end its first season.

Elsewhere, early music moves through five heritage spaces, the Convento dos Capuchos turns an 800-year anniversary into a full day, and @quinzenadedancadealmada fills theatres, screens, studios and gardens.

Six ways into the first weekend of October. Times, locations and access details are inside.

2–4 OCTOBER

SAM GARRETT AT KALĀ

THE ARTIST IS KNOWN.
THE VENUE IS THE DISCOVERY.

@samgarrettmusic has built a global audience with songs that move between acoustic folk, reggae and devotional music.

This Saturday, he brings a one-off public show to @kala.caparica , a retreat surrounded by forest and close to the ocean, where retreats are more usual than public concerts.

This is as much a chance to discover the address as the artist.

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@lucsahamusic + @jackweavermusic

SAT 3 · 17:00–22:00
KALĀ CAPARICA
RUA QUINTA DA OLIVA

TICKETS REQUIRED

MERCADO A.TI.TUDO

A MARKET FROM ERICEIRA IS COMING TO CAPARICA.
NOT JUST ONCE.

@mercado_atitudo has spent years gathering Portuguese makers, independent brands and small producers in Ericeira.

This weekend, it holds its first Costa da Caparica edition, bringing crafts, fashion, accessories, decoration and food to Largo 1.º de Maio.

The more interesting part begins after Sunday. This is planned as a new monthly date, returning on the first weekend of every month.

Not simply a market visiting town, but a new reason for the square to stay busy after summer.

SAT 3 + SUN 4 · 10:00–19:00
LARGO 1.º DE MAIO
COSTA DA CAPARICA

@jfcostacaparica

QUINTA MIRA RIO SEASON FINALE
THREE DIFFERENT GOODBYES.

After a first season that moved from yoga mornings and outdoor films to pool afternoons and proper nights out, @quinta_mirario is not choosing one way to say goodbye.

Friday gives the garden back to @theblackcatcinema for one last film under the stars.

Saturday belongs to @boaviagempt and nine taken in Margem Sul by @thecaparica

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For some time now, we’ve been trying to decide what the perfect picture of Caparica’s sweet side should look like.

Should we stick with the traditional favourites, or follow the newer bakeries and cafés that give us so many fresh reasons to leave room for dessert?

But Caparica and around has both, and that is the story.

It begins with perhaps the most Caparican sweet of all. The Claudino was created at Pastelaria Costa Nova in the 1980s from sugared puff pastry, baked until caramelised, with a light milk-based cream between the layers. When Costa Nova closed, its bakers brought the recipe to @o.capote_pastelaria. The pastelaria disappeared, but its sweet stayed, and if possible, even better.

The same street takes us to another familiar ritual. At @amerendeira.pt , arroz doce—rice cooked with milk, sugar and cinnamon—is still the ending that follows pão com chouriço from the wood-fired oven.

Then the timeline moves forward without leaving the classics behind.

@slow.sourdoughandco is exactly that bridge. One of the most beautiful bakeries we’ve stepped into, with an entirely vegan selection and a palmier that makes folded pastry and caramelised sugar feel like a new discovery.

At @hani.brunch.cafe the signature cake stacks thin layers carrying notes of honey and caramel with a tangy sour cream filling. At @burgerqueensofcaparica , white chocolate and matcha turn the cookie after the burger into a reason to visit in its own right.

This is this side of the river remembering and inventing at the same time.

What belongs at number six? Tell us what it is and where to find it.

#costadacaparica #lisbonfood #lisbonfoodguide #docesportugueses #margemsul taken in Margem Sul by @thecaparica

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