Almoçageme

Almoçageme (pronounced: Al-mu-sa-jè-mê) is a village on the Portuguese municipality of Sintra and in the Freguesia of Colares.

[1] The name Almoçageme is obviously Arab in origin – the Iberian peninsula is packed with Muslim toponyms that are a legacy of the five hundred years the Moors stayed over.

[2] Local festivities honoring Nossa Senhora da Graça take place on the first Sunday of October and last eight days.

These were unearthed in 1905 during the construction of a road (Estrada do Rodizio) linking Almoçageme with the spectacular beach of Praia Grande.

Almoçageme boasts the beach of Adraga with a vintage fish restaurant right by the sand that is the delight of the visitor.