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Diana Rosa Rodrigues

'The sand has gone': Portugal's €111m plan as winter storms see beaches retreat up to 20 metres

Storms that battered Portugal at the beginning of the year caused hundreds of euros worth of damage nationwide - and the coast was no exception.

The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) recorded a total of 749 incidents on the country's shores, including coastline retreat, which in many places was between 10 and 20 metres.

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