Algarve Portal Blog

The White Night  brings a special ambience to the city on August 29, 2015, when the city is celebrating the end of the Algarvian summer. A great night of partying in the streets of the city center, which has been decorated in white and all visitors to the event are asked to dress in white. Bands, juggler...

We have been informed by the ASMAA - Algarve Surf and Marine Activities Association that the consortium Partex/Repsol will start its first exploratory drillings in the Algarve Basin already in October 2015 - foreshore at only 8 kilometres from the coast. ASMAA was officially registered on 3 December 2012 a...

The project to better connect the Eastern Algarve with the International Airport of Faro and to reduce the through traffic  in Faro had been started already in 2009 but been suspended from 2011 to 2014 due to financial restrictions. After six years the president of the Câmara Municipal of Faro, Rog...

Due to the extremely hot summer 2015 the harvest of Alfarroba, the fruit of the carob tree, started already end of July in most areas of the Barrocal region , the fertile landscape between the coast of the Algarve and the mountainous Serra. Harvesting is a cumbersome work: this most labour-intensive part o...