ALGARVE HOLIDAYS   >   PORTUGAL   


The Portuguese Algarve is a good place to visit all year round.

Albufeira, Armação de Pêra, Carvoeiro, Almancil, Lagos, Montechoro, Portimão, Praia da Rocha, Vilamoura

Capital City Algarve : Faro.


car hire, hotels & inns, self catering, tour operators - algarve tours, travel guides, travel to the algarve

links


Camping & Caravanning

Camp sites   -   camping, motorhomes, mobile homes, caravans etc.

Car Hire Algarve

  Sixt   -    

  Holiday Autos   -     
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

   
From Enhanced Hertz Driving Directions to Emergency Roadside Assistance, check out the many reasons why Hertz is #1 in Car Rental

Holiday Rentals / Apartments

James Villas   -   Villas and villas with pools to rent with James Villa Holidays

Interhome   -   Holiday homes Algarve
All properties are checked on a regular basis. All homes can be booked on-line. Properties are shown by destination.

  Portugalvacances.com   -   Villas and holidays in Portugal at affordable prices
  Holiday Rentals

Hotels Algarve

  Hotels in Algarve
Hotels in Albufeira, Faro, Lagos, Tavira, Vilamoura, Almancil, Quarteira, Alvor, Portimão, Armação de Pêra, Praia da Rocha, Carvoeiro, and more ...

  Grande Real Santa Eulália Resort & Hotel Spa *****, Praia De Stª Eulália, Albufeira
Award winning Spa - Thalasso on the beach in the Algarve.
Set on lush gardens and situated right above the famous Santa Eulália beach, the Grande Real Santa Eulália Resort & Hotel Spa benifits from a unique and privileged location in Albufeira and offers an exceptional view over the Atlantic Ocean.

  Sheraton Algarve *****, Praia da Falésia, 8200-909 Albufeira
Encircled by pine trees and overlooking a white sandy beach and clear blue waters, this hotel offers the ultimate in comfort and leisure facilities.
Spend your time on the 9-hole golf course or mini golf, or take time out to relax in the health club or outdoor pools.
Try something different with the water sports facilities, or use one of 5 tennis courts for a energetic morning.
Drive along the coast to Olhos de Agua or Albufeira to see more of the Algarve's impressive coastline before returning to your comfortable hotel and its wealth of facilities. Choose how to spend your evening from a number of restaurants serving different types of cuisine.

  

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 easyJet holidays  
An all inclusive holiday on the Algarve is the perfect choice for a care-free family holiday made even better with well equipped hotels and resorts with great kids facilities, so the parents can unwind whilst the kids are kept entertained in a safe environment.

  Thomas Cook

  lastminute.com 

Jet2Holidays

  
Create your perfect trip to Algarve   -   Flight, Hotel and Car



James Villas   -   Algarve villas and villas with pools to rent with James Villa Holidays

  Secret Destinations Holidays   -   Sandy beaches; Quiet coves; Golf

Travel Guides Algarve / Related books

Travel Guides Algarve  [ amazon.co.uk ]

Algarve Insight Pocket Guide 
This 104-page book offers an expert's guide to the Algarve, with 19 itineraries and excursions taking in sights ranging from Faro's cobbled back streets to the region's sweeping, sandy beaches. It also includes a chapter detailing Algarve's history and culture, as well as leisure-time suggestions and a comprehensive information section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus dozens of full-colour photographs and detailed maps, including a detailed pull-out regional map.
Paperback 104 pages (October 29, 2004);  Publisher: Insight Guides;  Language: English;  ISBN: 9812580301
Algarve - Landscapes Countryside Guide  -  Brian Anderson, Eileen Anderson
Away from the busy beaches, the Algarve has a countryside full of interest and beauty, quietly awaiting discovery. From flowers and fountains, hilltops and history, to windmills and water-mills, this book will set your feet wandering to find them all. There are car tours, too, to get you out and about, searching out little -known points of interest-like the huge rose compass (rosa dos ventos) on the barren promontory of Sagres, where Prince Henry the Navigator founded his school of navigation, or the Moorish castle and old Roman bridge at Paderne. But don't think for one moment that we have turned our backs on and ignored the beautiful and rugged western coastline. Wherever it is still unspoilt and free from development, the authors have incorporated it into a walk.
Paperback 136 pages (November 1, 2004);  Publisher: Sunflower Books;  Language: English;  ISBN: 1856912582.
Portugal - Rough Guide 
By Mark Ellingham, Graham Kenyon, John Fisher, Jules Brown, Matthew Hancock.
Paperback 640 pages (March 31, 2005);  Publisher: Rough Guides;  Language: English;  ISBN: 184353438X.

Transport / How do I travel to Algarve

  Airport Faro 

 
Book cheap flights to Algarve / Faro at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets Algarve / Bargain Flights 
Flight tickets Algarve.

   -   Ferry Portsmouth to Bilbao
P&O Ferries is one of the most well known and trusted brands. Wherever you are travelling to, on holiday or on business, P&O Ferries offers a wide range of routes: Dover to Calais, Portsmouth to Bilbao, Portsmouth to Cherbourg, Portsmouth to Le Havre, Hull to Rotterdam and Hull to Zeebrugge


Links

  Algarve Tourist Board

  Faro   -   City of Faro
The long strip of dunes that separates the sea from the Ria Formosa is a paradise for anyone who enjoys sun, sand and sea. With the advantage that visitors can choose from a necklace of separate islands, and have mile after mile of sandy beaches all to themselves.
* Ilha de Faro: linked to the mainland by a road, this island has a small nucleus of beach houses, restaurants and other tourist facilities.
* Ilha de Barreta: this island is truly calm and solitary. Thanks to the fact that there are no regular ferry connections. It is an excellent destination for anyone who has hired a boat or is lucky enough to have their own and who wants to enjoy the pleasures of sea and sand undisturbed by other holidaymakers.
* Ilha do Farol: apart from a few fishermen's cabins, there is nothing on these islands but sand...
* Culatra: a former fishing village, until a few decades ago the houses of Culatra had wooden walls and thatched roofs. Fishing still goes on, and shell fish are harvested from the Ria. There is an extensive beach which is quiet, with a family atmosphere. Regular steam boat services run to the Farol and Culatra beaches from Faro [ summer ] and Olhão [ all year ].

  Albufeira   -   Community Albufeira
  Alcoutim [ district Faro ]   -   Community Alcoutim
  Aljezur   -   Community of Aljezur
  Alvor   -   small seaside resort with a large sandy beach. Former fishing village.
 Center consists of narrow, sloping streets.
  Armação de Pêra   -   Portal da Vila de Armação de Pêra   -   Originally a fishing village
 Small tourist resort with shops, bars and restaurants. Armacao has a long and wide sandy beach.
  Carvoeiro   -   Carvoeiro.com  
  Castro Marim   -   Community Castro Marim
Bestaat uit : Altura, Azinhal, Castro Marim en Odeleite
  Lagoa   -   Community Lagoa
  Lagos   -   Community Lagos   -   Port of Lagos
Lagos received city rights in 1573. After the earthquake of 1755 [ with a great tsunami ], the town was rebuilt. See also Digital Lagos [ Location, History, Heritage, Traditiies, Culture, and more ]
  Loulé   -   Community Loulé
  Monchique   -   Community Monchique
Monchique is one of the major Portuguese health resorts, situated in the picturesque wooded heights of the Serra de Monchique, which rise up to 2963m in the western direction. There are hot sulfur springs with baths and a sanatorium in the "Caldas de Monchique (Monchique the Source). In the surrounding hills there are many water resources providing most of the rivers and reservoirs in the Algarve with water. Consists Alferce, Marmelete and Monchique.
  Montechoro
  Olhão   -   Community Olhão
1378 Olhão is for the first time mentioned in a document as "Olham", a fishing village, where presumably only huts were standing. The fishermen should have been - then as now - clever and bold; it is established that they maintained active trade relations with North Africa and made a lot of money during the war between Spain and England in 1799.
Consists of Fuseta, Moncarapacho, Olhão, and Pechão Quelfes.
  Portimão   -   Port of Portimao
  Portimão   -   Community Portimao
Portimão could be traced back to a trading settlement of the Phoenicians.
  Praia da Rocha   -   major resort on the beach
  Quarteira   -   seaside resort
  São Brás de Alportel   -   Community São Brás de Alportel
  Sagres
Aufgrund seiner exponierten Lage am südwestlichsten Zipfel Portugals sollte Sagres das Ausgangspunkt der Reisen Heinrich des Seefahrers gewesen sein.
  Silves   -   old Moorish town   -   Community Silves
  Tavira   -   Community Tavira
  Vila do Bispo   -   Community Vila do Bispo
Close to the town of Lagos, starting from the village of Burgau, it belongs to a protected area consisting of almost the entire area  of Barlavento Algarvio making the existing beaches famous for its natural beauty.
Beaches Villa do Bispo : Praia de Burgau, Cabanas Velhas, Boca do Rio, Praia da Salema, Zavial, Ingrina and Praia da Carrapateira.
The community consists of Barão de São Miguel, Budens, Raposeira, Sagres and Vila do Bispo.
  Vila Real de Santo António   -   border town with Spain in the Rio Guadiana
Before the construction of the international bridge over the Guadiana, the easiest way to travel to Portugal from Andalusia was through this city.
  Vilamoura   -   Marina Vilanoura

  Aljezur Castle
  Beaches Algarve
Particularly popular beaches : Praia da Rocha, Meia Praia, Praia da Dona Ana, Praia da Luz and Praia dos Tres Irmãos.
  Cape St. Vincent   -   at Sagres, the most southwesterly point of Europe
  Forte da Ponta da Bandeira
  Ingrina Beach
  Lagos' Walls
  Pele Park   -   Football Park
  Slave Market
  Zoo Marine

  University Algarve   -   Universidade do Algarve

Cuisine

The Algarve cuisine dates back to the historical times of the Roman and Arabic. The ingredients used reflect the fresh flavors of the sea and the pleasant, strong aromas from the land.

Away from the coast, in the hills and valleys of the "Serra" and "Barrocal" can be found on the menu less seafood than on the coast. Here you find more traditional fare consisting of venison, smoked or otherwise preserved meats and much-loved national dishes.

  Gatronomia

History Algarve

  History of Algarve
In the mid-12th century, the Moorish occupation ended in the region due to the successful military campaigns of the Kingdom of Portugal. The "Al-Gharb" Became the Kingdom of Algarve, but battles with the Moors persisted. It was not until the 13th century thats the Portuguese finally secured the region against subsequent component Moorish Attempt to recapture the area, what was Referred to as the Reconquista....

  Reconquista [ retaking of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors ]
Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Nasser ibn Mahfuz, Emir of Niebla [ 1234-1262 ] and Emir of the Algarve [ 1242-1262 ], entrusted the rule of his kingdom to Alfonso of Castile.

  King Afonso III of Portugal 

Music, Culture & Events

The Algarve is famous for its pottery and ceramics, particularly hand-painted pottery and azulejos or tiles.

  Culture Algarve

  Museu Regional do Algarve
The Museu Regional do Algarve in Faro, created in the sixties of the twentieth century under the name Regional Ethnographic Museum and the Algarve offers a collection mostly gathered by Carlos Porfirio. It focuses on work and household utensils, and for what is generally referred to as "popular art" (basketry, tapestry, etc.). Also work by Carlos Porfirio, a Faro painter. See Museums in Faro 

  Feira de Santa Iria
  Folkfaro    -   Folclore Internacional da Cidade de Faro
International folk festival in Faro.
  Semana Académica da Universidade do Algarve [ Academic Week, University of Algarve ]
See Saudação Académica


  Reiswijs UK is not responsible for the content of external internet sites