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What is now IPMA was originally created in 1946 as the National Meteorological Service (Serviço Metereológico Nacional, SMN), which centralized the functions of the previous existing meteorological sectorial services (Civil Aviation, Army, Military Aeronautics, Navy and Agriculture) as well as the Azores regional meteorological service and part of the university meteorological institutes. [1]
Albufeira (pronounced [alβuˈfɐjɾɐ] ⓘ, locally [aɫbʷˈfeɾɐ, aɫbˈfeɾɐ]) is a city and municipality of Faro District in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.The population in 2021 was 44,158, [1] in an area of 140.66 square kilometres (54.31 square miles). [2]
The students' festival (Semana Académica da Universidade do Algarve), organized every year by students from the University of the Algarve, is also an important event in Faro. [33] The Faro motorcycle club is responsible for one of the largest motorcycle events in Portugal and Europe. [34] The Estádio Algarve opened for Euro 2004.
Praia da Oura is a blue flag beach [1] within the Municipality of Albufeira, in the Algarve, Portugal. [2] [3] The beach is in the eastern district of Albufeira in the neighbourhood called Areias de São João (Saint John's Sands). Its flanked by Praia dos Aveiros to the west and Praia de Santa Eulália to the eastern side.
[97] [98] Algarve native Fernando Silva Grade (1955–2019), a nationally renowned plastic artist and activist with a licentiate degree in biology awarded by the University of Lisbon in 1983, [99] in his 2014 book O Algarve Tal como o Destruímos (loose translation: The Algarve as we destroyed it), vehemently opposed the proliferation of the ...
Praia da Coelha (English: Rabbit Beach) is a beach [1] close to the village resort of Sesmarias which is within the Municipality of Albufeira, in the Algarve, Portugal. [2] This beach is located 3.9 miles (6.3 km) by road to the west of Albufeira old town centre and is 31.5 miles (50.7 km) west of the region's capital, Faro.
Praia dos Pescadores or the Fishermans Beach is a blue flag beach [1] on the Atlantic south coast of the Algarve, in the district of Bairro dos Pescadores (Neighborhood of the Fisherman), Albufeira which is within the Municipality of Albufeira, Portugal. [2]
Praia do Evaristo is a beach within the Municipality of Albufeira, in the Algarve, Portugal. [1] The beach is 3.8 miles (6.1 km) west of the town of Albufeira and is 31.3 miles (50.4 km) west of the regions capital of Faro. [2] In 2012 Praia do Evaristo has been designated a Blue Flag Beach. [3]