The Costa da Caparica, near Lisbon, has been part of my imagination since childhood. I grew up in a nearby town and spent my summer holidays in the area’s campsites, frequenting the beaches throughout my life. I remember going with my parents to buy vegetables at Terras da Costa and, as a child, playing with friends as we tunneled through the acacia trees along the sand, reaching clearings where we created hiding places. Towards the end of 2021, I began photographing the area, returning to it several times. My first focus was the houses along the first kilometre of the Estrada Florestal (Forest Road), starting from Costa da Caparica. Their vernacular, improvised architecture — built, altered, and rebuilt over time — immediately drew my attention. After completing this initial approach, I felt the need to look beyond the road. I began photographing the Terras da Costa: a territory situated between the Arriba Fóssil, classified as a Protected Landscape, and the Estrada Florestal itself. This area is marked by centuries-old agricultural practices and by the continuity of generations deeply connected to the land. The Estrada Florestal, meanwhile, was progressively occupied at the margins of urban planning, becoming a space of informal settlement, primarily by families arriving from the former Portuguese colonies after the revolution of 25 April 1974, as well as by internal migratory movements. As I walked through the territory and photographed it, I met people who shared fragments of their lives and those of previous generations, always with openness, respect, and generosity. Some spoke of children who had continued working the land or the sea; others had followed different paths. Today, Terras da Costa remains one of Portugal’s most important areas of agricultural production, yet it is under increasing pressure. Urban and tourist expansion, the absence of effective land protection policies, and the ageing of the farming population threaten the ways of life rooted in this place. This project brings together fragments of a shifting landscape — cultivated fields, improvised dwellings, and lived memories — offering a portrait of a territory suspended between permanence and transformation, where questions of land, housing, and memory remain unresolved.