The Fortress of Sagres is one of the most important historical and tourist points of the council of Vila do Bispo and is located at the extreme of the Western Algarve.
The Sagres village was built to support the navigation that crossed those waters. Close to the Atlantic Ocean, Sagres keeps in the memory the magnitude of the Portuguese marine facts. The Fortress of Sagres has a big square,...
The freguesia of Luz de Tavira began to be known since the century XVI, before 1514 and its importance appears through its intense agricultural activity.
Luz of Tavira, declared town on July 12, 2001, is about six kilometres from the city of Tavira. Luz includes an area of 31.53 squared kilometres and has 3.778 inhabitants. Ists patron is Nossa Senhora da Luz.
Nowadays, this freguesia...
The history of Cabanas (Huts in english) begins in 1734, when the tuna fishing was considered one of the main activities, originating the creation of the first indispensable huts in the place to store the fishing equipments and to the enlarge the company.
For more than 20 years we just heard about the huts as seasonal residence, however, only about 1757 some fishermen opted to build their...
The beach of Quarteira is one of the main attractive places of the freguesias of Loule. Located within the city of Quarteira, this beach is the favourite of thousands of tourists that visit the Algarve during the summer, the spring the autumn and the winter.
With two kilometres and an extensive sand dune, the beach of Quarteira started to be a popular destiny of vacations starting from the...
Faro is one of the main councils of Algarve, within the capital of the district of Faro is located the only international airport of Algarve and the second largest of the country that links Portugal to several european countries, making possible the entrance in Algarve of thousands of tourists a year.
Faro is also the capital of the sun, it is in the coast of Faro that most of the visitors...
Lagos located in the Algarve of Portugal, is a council of the district of Faro with thousands years of history, its importance increased during the period of the great portuguese maritime shippings of the century XV.
The Infant Dom Henrique, known as Infant of Sagres or the Navigator who lived in Lagos, commanded a lot of expeditions to conquests some cities in Morocco and to discovery the...
When we are speaking about buying a property in Portugal, we are speaking about our dream which took a long time before being finally realized, but we are speaking also about various dream features in the property which probably could be useless or which at least costs a lot of money or a lot of time in the maintenance.
Of course a basement waterfall and grotto is a practical and useful...
The day that Vila Real de Santo Antonio was born, Castro Marims council lost his space in the Portuguese national scenery, but even so and for having a big patrimonial memory, Castro Marim is a municipal district with a lot of history to be told.
The place with more tourist appeal are Castro Marims Castle, Fort of S. Sebastiao, Small chapel of Santo Antonio, Reserves of Castro Marim and Vila...
Monte Gordo is about three kilometres from the council to which belongs, Vila Real de Santo Antonio. Because of its potentialities, today, Monte Gordo is an international tourist centre.
The place was an old town of fishermen and with the presence of the sea, Monte Gordo was pioneering in the tourist exploration in Algarve, with the construction of one of the first hotels of the area in the...
Loule is a rural administrative and active market town with some remains of a castle dating back to the 12th Century.
The Arab castle has been virtually destroyed leaving some walls still standing that are now surrounded by modern buildings. Like most other towns in the Algarve, most of the older potentially interesting buildings have been destroyed in the earthquake that occurred in 1755.
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