First the blue sea and its gently lapping waves.
Then fine, golden sands framed by cliffs and rocks. The cosmopolitan atmosphere of an international tourism destination. This is the Algarve of beach holidays in the sun.

Portimão and its municipality have much more to offer though: a rich heritage of historical monuments; the eternal natural beauty of the Ria de Alvor; the charm of cultivated fields, of slopes covered with pine trees and wildflowers as you climb up into the hills of the “Serra”, your days in the Algarve thus gaining a whole new dimension.

Alvor is a picturesque town close to Portimão in the Algarve. This beautiful and charming town conserves most of its Moorish historic roots due to the fact that the whole region was under Moorish occupation for many centuries.

Alvor would only be conquered by the Portuguese in the year 1189 when the armies of King D. Sancho I were finally able to take Alvor’s Castle. The Castle is still there along with its lovely medieval churches.