Carvoreiro

Glad we picked this spot along the Algarve, after the big cities of Porto and Lisbon it was very nice to come to this smaller town.

Carvoeiro was an Algarve fishing village but now a tourist hot spot. It is five kilometers south of Lagoa where our bus came in. It is built into steep red sea cliffs, and backed by hills with a picturesque cove and a sandy and sheltered beach, .

The name is thought to derive from 'Caboiere', the old word for an Islamic-Medieval hamlet of fishermen.Baca lagi