Silves is the Algarve'\''s oldest settlement, home to a Moorish castle and a cathedral built on a mosque footprint. Here'\''s how to make the most of a half-day or full day visit.
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The Algarve has a problem that most visitors never see. Behind the beach resorts and the marina developments lies a region of remarkable ecological richness — a chain of wetlands, coastal dunes, and Atlantic scrubland that runs the full length of the coast and supports species found nowhere else in Europe. Three of these areas […]
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The carob tree outside the chapel in Cachoupe looks like something from a mythology book — trunk gnarled into a mass of dark furrows, branches reaching out over the ancient stone walls with the unhurried confidence of something that has outlasted every drought, every fire, every generation of farmers who once gathered beneath it. It […]
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Salt is the first thing the Algarve exported to the world, and it is the last thing most visitors think of when they come here. The coastal marshes and tidal flats that line the eastern Algarve — from the margins of the Arade estuary near Portimão through the Ria Formosa lagoon system to the Castro […]
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The Algarve coast is built on limestone, and where that limestone has met the Atlantic for millennia, the results are extraordinary. Sea caves, arches, blowholes, and grottoes punctuate the cliff line from Lagos to Carvoeiro — formations so dramatic that one of them, the Benagil cave, has become one of the most photographed spots in […]
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There is a brief, unguarded moment each May morning when the Algarve coast belongs entirely to you. Between 05:00 and 07:00, before the first cars reach the parking lots, the shoreline exists in a state of genuine solitude.
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