Tourist information - Carvoeiro
This was a very small intimate fishing village which has lost any resemblance to its modest origins. In 1965 a foreign resident wrote about the place “The form of living stays primarily medieval”. Then there came the tourists and the money. In these days, the village spreads to the east and west with expensive villas and comfortable holiday apartments. The only village street has now become three, each lined with bars, smart restaurants as well as tourist shops. Blissfully, there are still kinds of the older quaint small houses tucked among the more recent ones. A 36-Hole Golf & Holiday Complex is located to the west of the village along with a well run Tennis Centre. Towards the east and on the outskirts is a further 9-Hole Course. The choice of this place for the tourist to acquire property was also because of the wide variety and attractiveness of its many small beaches. High cliffs surround the majority of these, and some of which have eroded to create beckoning dark caves. Most of them are mostly obtainable only at low tide. Beaches to visit are Praia de Centianes, Praia de Carvalho, Praia de Benagil, Praia de Marinha and Praia da Albandeira.
Near to Carvoeiro is the village of Ferragudo, still an unspoilt fishing village. Lagoa the area administrative town is also near the home of the 11th Century Arab poet "Ibn Ammar". Inland is the unspoilt small village of Porches. Another place that's a must to visit is the inland historic and interesting city of Silves having its fine remains of its castle.
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