The entrance features a long seaside promenade

LAGOS - Jewel of the Algarve

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August 5th 2015
My favorite place in the entire Algarve is Lagos, a small fishing port of about 32,000 near the western end of the province. It has been occupied over the centuries by Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, Byzantines and Moors, whom the Portuguese expelled for good in 1241. Today it has a bit of everything – a sheltered marina, natural beauty, historical artifacts, good shopping, a leisurely lifesty ... read more

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more