Cascais Polo Club

Cascais Polo Club is Portugal's oldest and most established polo institution, located in the coastal municipality of Cascais west of Lisbon that has served as a summer retreat for Portuguese royalty and aristocracy since the nineteenth century. The club operates in a region with a strong equestrian heritage — the Sintra-Cascais natural park and the surrounding horse country of the Estoril coast have always supported equestrian activity — and has been the centre of organised polo in Portugal for decades. The club is affiliated with the Portuguese Polo Federation (FEP equivalent) and hosts national championship events as well as social polo throughout the mild Atlantic coast season. The proximity to Lisbon — 30 minutes by motorway — makes Cascais an accessible base for the capital's polo-playing community, and the club's setting between Atlantic coastline and the Serra de Sintra provides one of the most scenic polo environments in Western Europe.