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Marina de Lagos, Portugal. Lagos' economy, like many coastal towns in Portugal, has always been closely linked to the sea, and fishing has been an important activity since very ancient times. Since 1960, the city has embraced tourism, which has become its most important economic activity. It has beautiful beaches, good climate, the sea, a ...
Odiáxere is a street settlement directly on the narrow town through-road of EN125, via which the town is connected to junction 2 (Odiáxere) of the A22 motorway. Local public transport is operated here by the municipal bus company ONDA of the city of Lagos. Two local bus lines, Lines 3 (Rosa) and 8 (Lilas), serve the town of Odiáxere. [8]
Estácio da Veiga's 1878 archeological map of the Algarve. In 1807, while Jean-Andoche Junot led the first Napoleonic invasion in the north of Portugal, the Algarve was occupied by Spanish troops under Manuel Godoy. Beginning in 1808, and after subsequent battles in various towns and villages, the region was the first to drive out the Spanish ...
This is a list of cities in Portugal.In Portugal, a city (Portuguese: cidade) is an honorific term given to locations that meet several criteria, such as having a minimum number of inhabitants good infrastructure (schools, medical care, cultural and sports facilities), or have a major historical importance.
Bensafrim e Barão de São João is a civil parish in the municipality of Lagos, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Bensafrim and Barão de São João. [ 1 ] The population in 2011 was 2,425, [ 2 ] in an area of 130.20 km 2 .
Bensafrim (European Portuguese pronunciation: [bẽsɐˈfɾĩ]) is a former civil parish in the municipality of Lagos, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Bensafrim e Barão de São João. [1] It has about 2,004 inhabitants (2001). The name comes from the Arabic word Benassaharim. It used to be an agrarian community.
Praia da Luz (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɾajɐ ðɐ ˈluʃ]), officially Luz, is a civil parish of the municipality of Lagos, in Algarve region, Portugal. [1] The population of the civil parish in 2011 was 3,545, [2] in an area of 21.78 km 2. [3]
According to several historians quoted by João Paulo Rocha in 1910, the first Phoenicians arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 935 BC, to search for gold and silver, having returned a few years later with a larger fleet, which reached as far as Cape St. Vincent [12] In the city of Lagos several Phoenician remains have been found, such as ceramics found in Barroca Street, dating from the ...