3 Once a fishing village

The original character of Praia da Luz is re emerging as the distubance of Madeleine’s disappearance dies down.

Once a fishing village, Praia da Luz now depends on “Brits abroad” to make a living. It has a church, a fortress, a rocky coastline and a small sheltered beach. The town consists of mostly of tightly packed white painted holiday apartments, while the locals live in smaller, shabbier high-rise flats on the outskirts of town. The locals look at foreigners suspiciously while the Brits are known for drinking and throwing things. It is hard to imagine a place less likely to house a paedophile ring.

This Chaplins, next to the Church, not even pretending to be Portugese