Ornate Baroque churches, fado players at every turn, crunchy-on-the-outside, soft-and-warm-on-the-inside pastéis de nata and ...

F amed for its golden coastline and 300-plus annual days of sunshine, Portugal’s Algarve is a beloved beach getaway. Yet with ...

Falesia beach in Albufeira, Algarve region in Portugal Carvoeiro beach in Algarve, Portugal Beaches, history and bargains - what's not to love about Portugal's Albufeira resort, says Gerry O'Carroll.

Albufeira is one of those destinations that caters to a wide array of holidaymakers from families with small children to stag and hen parties. Tucked along the southern coast of Portugal's Algarve ...

“Hey, New York!” called out my Algarve boat tour operator, pointing across the blue-green water to the clifftop Fortress of Sagres, one of the westernmost points in Europe. “You could leave from there ...

“I work against the sun so I can see the shapes,” he says, pushing his long-poled ‘harvester’ across the shallows of the tidal salt pan, “and scoop up the flecks on the top.” At, Salmarim, a project ...

Portugal’s Algarve is a wonderful bit of European geography at the southwestern corner of the Continent, at the longitude of ...