Praia d'El Rey

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rdf:langString Praia d'El Rey Golf & Beach Resort is a commercial tourism, golf and residential beach resort on Portugal's western Atlantic coast 106 kilometres north of the country's capital, Lisbon. It covers an area of 240 acres (0.97 km2) and is between the fishing town of Peniche, in Oeste Subregion, to the south and Obidos Lagoon to its north. The first properties built within the site in the late 1990s were near to its gated entrance, followed later by a Marriott Hotel and several hundred more private villas, townhouses and apartments - which are owned mostly by Irish, British and Scandinavian nationals. Properties within the resort are usually either second/holiday homes or lived in year-round by retirees. In 1997 a links golf course was opened on the site designed by Cabell B. Robinson, an American golf course architect. This championship course is 6,625 metres long and a par 73 and is considered by many golfers to one of the more challenging courses in Portugal being both a links course when next to the beach, but also travels through wooded areas and is overlooked by houses. Praia d'El Rey, which recently won a travel award, is also a beach resort and residents and visitors are able to gain access to the area's beach.