In all honesty, this was our least favourite area in Portugal.
Can’t really explain why, it simply felt that way. Something with les goûts et les couleurs…
Speaking about taste. We had the BEST vegan meal ever in restaurant Pisco.
If you happen to travel to the most South-West point of Portugal, Cabo de Sāo Vicente, you really have to stop in Vila do Bispo and have a meal there. We stayed on a walking distance 2 nights in a B&B Pure Fonte Velha. Too bad Pisco doesn’t serve breakfast ;-)
Traveling outside the normal touristic season has its advantages. The biggest one, very few travellers. So the moment we visited Faro it had a kind of peaceful atmosphere.
Although we did see planes landing at the nearby airport every 10mins during our visit.
The old city center Vila Adentro is not large and surrounded by fortified city walls. On the rooftop of the former district civil government’s palace we were greated by a couple of storks. They were not the first en certainly not the last we would see. The church of Carmo is one of the most important historical monuments in the Algarve region. Construction started in 1747 and was completed in the early 19th century. It took them blood, sweat and tears to finish it. Behind the church is the chapel of bones. A chapel covered with bones of over a thousand monks.
We made 2 additional stops before our compass pointed to Evora. Namely Benagil grot and Praia de Marinha. Best time to visit the grot is prior breakfast. You can enter the grot either by kayak or do a peekaboo from above while wandering around and enjoy the magnificent sea view.
