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Comporta — Europe's Most Glamorous Secret Is Still a Secret. Barely.

An hour south of Lisbon, past the rice fields and the cork forests and the point where the roads turn to sand, there is a stretch of coastline that the European ultra-wealthy have been keeping deliberately quiet for twenty years. Comporta. The place Christian Louboutin chose to build his house.
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