Cascais is a small Portuguese city of little more than 33,000 hab. (2001), seat of the municipality with he himself name, in the District of Lisbon. The city is in a beautiful sandy bay in the Atlantic Ocean, to about 25 km to the west of Lisbon.
The municipality of Cascais is in the southwestern end of the District of Lisbon, limits the north with the municipality of Sintra, the east with the one of Oeiras and to the south and the west with the Atlantic Ocean.
At Cascais it is possible to be arrived by train of neighborhoods or railcar. Both lines leave from Lisbon and finish there. In addition Cascais counts on a modern port of yachts with more than 600 seats of capacity.
Cascais and Oeiras were the first populations that sighted the Portuguese ships that entered the Edge at the time of the Discoveries, with spices of the India and gold of Brazil. In addition, the curativas waters of the zone were destiny of bourgeois and landowners from century XIX and Estoril, after World War II, became instead of residence of overthrown monarchs. By all it, nowadays, the zone is no lost his glamour and its cosmopolitan air. But it is within reach of all.