📜 Capital city of the Portuguese Algarve region.
✈️ Home to an international airport and rich historical sites.
☀️ Experience the largest city in Algarve, located on the Atlantic coast
🏛️ Explore the Cidade Velha (Old Town) with monuments like Sé Cathedral and Bishop's Palace
⛪ Visit significant religious sites including Igreja de Nossa Senhora de Carmo and Igreja de Sao Francisco
📜 Discover a city with a history dating back to Phoenician and Roman times, and a vibrant Moorish past
✈️ Conveniently located with its own international airport, just 7 km from the city center
🚂 Excellent railway connections to Lisbon and other Algarve towns
🚗 Connected by highway to Lisbon and other Algarve towns.
🚆 Railway offers daily fast connections to Lisbon and suburban transport on the Lagos – Tunes – Faro – Vila Real de Santo António route.
✈️ Faro Algarve Airport (FAO) is approximately 7 km from the city center.
⏳ Established in 1266, Faro was a Phoenician trading center and Roman port (Ossonoba).
🕌 Briefly a cultural capital during the Moorish period in the 11th century.
🔥 Suffered significant damage from plundering in 1596 and strong earthquakes in 1722 and 1755, leading to extensive reconstruction.
📈 Rapid development from the 1960s with infrastructure built to attract Western tourists.