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Arraiolos is a small Alentejo town best known for two things: its distinctive hilltop castle and the embroidered woollen rugs that have carried its name around the world. Arraiolos makes an easy day trip but absolutely rewards visitors willing to look beyond its most famous craft. What we like about Arraiolos is that it does …
The Central Algarve is one of the most popular and most visited regions of the Algarve. Busy resort towns, dramatic limestone cliffs, marinas, market towns, and some of southern Portugal’s most photographed beaches. It is the most developed part of the Algarve, but it also contains historic centres, fishing villages, inland towns, and coastal walks …
The Algarve is one of Portugal’s most famous regions, but it is also one of its most misunderstood. For many visitors, the name brings to mind summer holidays, beaches, resorts, golf courses and busy marinas. Of course, those things all exist but they are only one side to the Algarve. Look a little closer, spend …
The eastern Algarve is perhaps the Algarve as its purest. An unspoiled and more rural Algarve compared to the central and most popular region. Here in the eastern Algarve many of the towns retain their original historic features and they haven’t all been converted into resorts with high rise apartments. With the Ria Formosa stretching …