With Faro airport, the city has the only airport of the Algarve and has been since its construction in 1965 to the infrastructural and administrative centre of the region. However, the city for many tourists is not only a transit station, but also a popular tourist destination. Faro inspired above all by its architecture. Here you will find the Baroque church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo and the creepy bone chapel was decorated with bones and skulls. Its old town is the most beautiful area of Faro. In this stroll through the historic city gates, like for example the Arco as Vila odern the Arco do Repousado. Located here is an another remarkable sacred building, the Cathedral of light from the 13th century. In the former monastery of Nossa Senhora since you can Assunção from 16th century in the cloister of enchanted stroll and tracking in the attached Museum of the archaeological history of the city. The painted tiles, the Azulejos are very worth seeing. Even stroll to the harbour and get to know the methods of fishing and the marine art of the Algarve in the Museo Maritimo. In addition, the ethnographic museum with the illustrative exhibition on living and housing conditions, the culture and the arts and crafts of the Algarve lures.
You can take their car directly after your arrival at the airport of Faro in reception. With a hire car, you are fast, independent and comfortable in your vacation home. The car hire in Faro offers but also car hire locations in the city of Faro. On the national road 125 you can reach from Faro airport out quickly the Algarve-Highway 22, which runs in the East or West of the Algarve. Faro itself is dominated by a radially-based road network. You will find an excellent parking for your car hire in Faro on the sea on the course of Lago de São Francisco. Continue with your rental car once at the lagoon of Faro along to the beach of Faro upstream located nearby. The lagoon stretches around the airport of Faro and is not only a natural park, but also a saline area. Here, the Fleur de Mer in shallow basin is harvested. Through the channels of the lagoon some picturesque fishing boats and from the Rio Formosa Beach, you have a wonderful view of the white shining skyline of Faro. Here you can experience the endless beach walks, because the beaches around Faro retire rock-free kilometers across the border to Spain. Who is like playing golf, can reach easily the golf course of San Lorenzo with the car in the West of Faro. In addition, also a tour of the Algarve hinterland lock. Here drive as the hedge in Portugal is called by the maquis, and discover picturesque villages, light eucalyptus and cork oak forests, as well as in the spring a flourishing sea of almond trees. See for yourself and just going continue with your platform you will be surprised, the nature of the Algarve is varied and colorful.
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